• Episode 32: Get Your Motor Runnin'

  • Aug 12 2021
  • Length: 22 mins
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Episode 32: Get Your Motor Runnin'

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  • Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway! Because the federal government ponied up some money in 1916 to make sure the roads were all in good condition.  Or you can always head out on the parkway that New York built in 1919, and of course, you can always take your highway out to the first regional suburban shopping center too.

     

    Transportation Epochs:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borchert%27s_Epochs#:~:text=Borchert's%20epochs%20refer%20to%20five,of%20growth%20of%20American%20cities.

    https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=geosciences_facpub

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5gDWNE7rfs

     

    1916 Federal Highway Act:

    https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/96summer/p96su2.cfm

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aid_Road_Act_of_1916

    https://historylink.org/File/7243

     

    1919 First Parkway in the U.S.:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_River_Parkway

    https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/X004/history

    http://npshistory.com/publications/colo/colo-pkwy-context.pdf

     

    1922 First Auto-Oriented Shopping Center:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Club_Plaza

    https://www.visitkc.com/2017/06/27/today-i-learned-history-behind-country-club-plaza
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