Excerpt from The Freeway in the City: Principles of Planning and Design<br><br>The 1960's have been years of impressive national growth. The nation has experienced unprecedented economic expansion, continuing increases in population, and accelerated urbanization of our society.<br><br>At the same time, steady growth in our national productivity and personal income has broadened our opportunities, both as individuals and as a society, to satisfy new cultural and recreational desires. Concern over what is traditionally called the standard of living is more and more becoming concern over the quality of living in America.<br><br>This new emphasis in national aspiration and public policy is having profound implications for highway transportation.<br><br>On the one hand, personal mobility remains a cherished right in a free society, and essential to the pursuit of each individual's goals. High way transportation is the basis for the unprecedented degree of personal mobility we enjoy today, as well as for the scope and dependability of freight movement. Maintaining mobility in a growing economy clearly requires the continued growth of highway transportation.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.