SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Highway
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Us federal highway program: redesigning transport landscape of the us. End of globalization, wars for natural resources, and shortages of supplies. Energy curve of history: for most of past. 200 years, living in historical moment where we have been using coal, fossil fuels for energy. Led to believe we could have unlimited growth. Looking at sociology and comparison to other social sciences. Robert moses: ny state and city official whose public works for the 30s, 40s, and. 50s transformed ny city: master builder of the mi-20th century ny city. 1000s of people, uprooted people by building expressways through them. After he began to redesign highways, made sure bridges giving access to beaches and parks that trucks could not go through. Not only trucks that couldn"t go through, buses as well. Taking busses in 50s and 60s was only option to those not rich enough to own a car. (many were black)
