Authors:Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: transportation, reform, agenda, metropolitan, road, taking
Number of Pages: 331
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815748272
ISBN-13: 9780815748274

Pressing challenges face America’s transportation networks, despite the passage of two key pieces of federal legislation in the 1990s that offered a new framework for transportation practices and helped to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between old and new communities. Congestion is a hallmark of many metropolitan areas, while infrastructure is fraying. Working families often face daunting commutes to jobs whether they live in the metropolitan outer fringe or the heart of the city. And transportation funding, rather than c

Author: Ruth Behar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: cuba, puentes, bridges
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1996-01-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0472066110
ISBN-13: 9780472066117

Through personal essays and poetry, short fiction and painting, book reviews, interviews, performance pieces, and hybrid creations of text and image, Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba opens a window onto the meaning of nationality, transnationalism, and homeland in our time. For more than thirty-five years U.S.-Cuban relations have been couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remain in their homeland. Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba celebrates the informal networks that Cubans in both countries have maintained through artistic, academic, family, an