This is a small collection of articles on the “freeway revolts” or “highway revolts” of the 1960s and 70s.
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U.S. Highway Revolts

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  Armstrong, Kathleen. “Litigating the Freeway Revolt: Keith v. Volpe.”Ecology Law Quarterly 2 (1972): 761. Web.
• Bullard, Robert Doyle, Glenn Steve Johnson, and Angel O. Torres.Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity. South End Press, 2004. Print.
• Chew, Megan Lenore. “Shaker Heights’ Revolt Against Highways.” thesis. Ohio State University, 2009. Web.
• Deakin, Elizabeth. “The Social Impacts of the Interstate Highway System.” Social Research in Transport (SORT) Clearinghouse (2006): n. pag. Web.
• DiMento, Joseph F. C. “Stent (or Dagger?) in the Heart of Town: Urban Freeways in Syracuse, 1944—1967.” Journal of Planning History 8.2 (2009): 133–161. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• Dyble, Louise Nelson. “Revolt Against Sprawl Transportation and the Origins of the Marin County Growth-Control Regime.” Journal of Urban History 34.1 (2007): 38–66. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• Ellis, Cliff. “Interstate Highways, Regional Planning and the Reshaping of Metropolitan America.” Planning Practice and Research 16.3-4 (2001): 247–269. Web.
• “Get On The Bus: 50 Years Of ‘Freedom Rides’ : NPR.” NPR.org. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• Hestermann, Dean W. et al. “Impacts of a Consent Decree on ‘the Last Urban Freeway’: Interstate 105 in Los
• Angeles County.”Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 27.4 (1993): 299–313. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• Johnson, Katherine M. “Captain Blake Versus the Highwaymen: Or, How San Francisco Won the Freeway Revolt.” Journal of Planning History8.1 (2009): 56–83. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• Lathrop, W H. “SAN FRANCISCO FREEWAY REVOLT.” Journal of Transportation Engineering (1971): n. pag. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• McKeown, Chad Daniel. “Beyond the Freeway Revolt : Integrating Freeways into the Urban Fabric.” N.p., 1998. Print.
• Mohl, Raymond A. “Stop the Road Freeway Revolts in American Cities.”Journal of Urban History 30.5 (2004): 674–706. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• —. “The Expressway Teardown Movement in American Cities Rethinking Postwar Highway Policy in the Post-Interstate Era.” Journal of Planning History 11.1 (2012): 89–103. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• Mohl, Raymond A. “The Interstates and the Cities: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt, 1966–1973.” Journal of Policy History 20.02 (2008): 193–226. Web.
• Napolitan, Francesca, and P. Zegras. “Shifting Urban Priorities?: Removal of Inner City Freeways in the United States.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2046.-1 (2008): 68–75. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
• Sen, Siddhartha. “Environmental Justice in Transportation Planning and Policy: A View From Practitioners and Other Stakeholders in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Region.” Journal of Urban Technology 15.1 (2008): 117–138. Web.
• Wells, Christopher W. “From Freeway to Parkway Federal Law, Grassroots Environmental Protest, and the Evolving Design of Interstate-35E in Saint Paul, Minnesota.” Journal of Planning History11.1 (2012): 8–26. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.