The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation

ISBN-13: 9780367597108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 222 str.

Matthew Heins

Opis

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

Spis treści

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 

O autorze

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.