Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction by Erick Guerra islandport press Nicole Maple Coenen is a

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Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction by Erick Guerra islandport press Nicole Maple Coenen is aThe world's largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and triumph of engineering. President Eisenhower's 1956 Interstate Highway Act is often praised as a model of successful bipartisanship. Today, the extensive damage wreaked by the creation of the highway system and the ills of car dependency are more widely