Episode 144: More Than Just a Box
Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastPublished On: Fri Jun 09 2017
Description: This week we're joined by Matthew Heins to talk about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. Matthew talks about how the American highway and rail systems created a global standard for shipping containers, the local actors shaping globalization, containerization's effects on labor and relevance to an automated trucking future, and the massive intermodal terminals in cities like Chicago.
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