Matthew Heins

The Globalization of American Infrastructure

The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation

• Broschiertes Buch

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 th

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367597108
• ISBN-10: 0367597101
• Artikelnr.: 69892910

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