Modern mobility aloft : elevated highways, architecture, and urban change in pre-interstate America / Amy D. Finstein.

Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. The Problem of Congestion
1. A Recipe for Dystopia: Technology, Speed, and Privatization in the Nineteenth-Century City
2. Road-Colored Glasses: Dreaming and Engineering Urban Futures
II. Elevated Expectations
Introduction
3. Beaux Arts Chicago
4. Art Deco New York
5. Streamlined Boston
III. Bridges and Divides
6. The Realities and Consequences of Construction
7. Aftershocks: Interstates and Interventions
Notes
Bibliography
Index