Matthew Heins

The Globalization of American Infrastructure (eBook, ePUB)

The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The domestic transportation system of the United States has been "globalized" over the past few decades by the growing presence of the shipping container, and by the changes necessary to accommodate that object. This volume chronicles this process through a detailed and theoretically informed account of the impact of the shipping container on the American freight transportation system, arguing that globalization in this case is not a top-down process that imposes itself from above on national, regional or local scales, but instead transpires through a more nuanced dynamic whereby the nation-state, regions and local settings play a formative role.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317282365
• Artikelnr.: 44758481

Autorenporträt

Matthew Heins is an independent scholar, and works in urban planning. He gained his PhD degree from the University of Michigan, and has been a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design, Northeastern University and Wayne State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Rise of the Shipping Container 3. Containerization
as Infrastructure 4. Globalizing the Infrastructure of the Nation-State 5.
The Reluctant Railroads 6. Trucking Gets On Board 7. The Changing Railroads
8. Trucking Finds Its Place 9. Sites of Transfer 10. Slow Going on the
Inland Waterways 11. Conclusion