Review: Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America Amy D. Finstein Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020, 304 pp. , 12 maps, 103 b/w illus. 115. 50 (cloth), ISBN 9781439919170; 29. 95 (paper), ISBN 9781439919187 Gabrielle Esperdy Gabrielle Esperdy New Jersey Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 112–113. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 112 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2024; 83 (1): 112–113. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 112 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act into law, making possible a "National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. " Since then, the interstates—with their ubiquitous red-white-and-blue shield-shaped signs—have dominated public consciousness and everyday experience of limited-access, high-speed motorways in the United States. Nowhere is their impact more apparent than in U. S. cities still dealing with the consequences of a fraught trifecta of interstates, urban renewal, and racial segregation. New York's Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95) and New Orleans's Claiborne Expressway (I-10) are two notorious midcentury interstates whose social and environmental devastations were obvious from the moment the roads opened. Boston's John F. Fitzgerald Expressway (I-93), constructed from 1951 to 1959 and better known as the Central Artery, is another high-profile example. Kevin Lynch analyzed the Central Artery in The Image of the City (1960), Helen Leavitt attacked it in Superhighway—Superhoax (1970), and Tom Lewis offered a measured. . . You do not currently have access to this content.