The origins of roads often bespeak important lessons for those who later seek to pursue
infrastructure projects. This is especially the case for routes through difficult landscapes. We …

Never before in history has humanity been so interconnected. Continental and even global
infrastructure programs, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative, are investing billions of …

Never before in history has humanity been so interconnected. Continental and even global
infrastructure programs, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative, are investing billions of …

The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people: an emblematic project during a
period focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the …

The title of this book suggests that it is a history of the recently completed Interoceanic
Highway, which connects Peru and Brazil in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios. The …

Highways to Empire: The Inca Road System Page 1 and Machu Picchu, in the mountains 50
mi to the northwest. Inca roads were not limited to urban areas, however. They reached far …

Historical route geographers consider the factors that influenced past roadbuilding, and the
changes that result from roadbuilding. The earliest Spanish colonial officials in Central …

Nearly three decades ago, a French-trained urban planner remarked that “getting around
any Latin American city is a true quotidian feat” for travelers contending with “the subways of …

Abstract The Inca Empire had the most extensive road system known in a society which
lacked the wheel. Since this road network was documented in ethnohistorical records …

This article discusses the planning and construction of the Pan-American Highway by
focusing on interactions among engineers, government officials, manufacturers, auto …