Episode 144: More Than Just a Box

An episode of the Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast podcast, hosted by The Overhead Wire, titled "Episode 144: More Than Just a Box" was published on June 9, 2017 and runs 30 minutes.

June 9, 2017 ·30m · Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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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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