Author: Detroit (Mich.). Rapid Transit CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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City of Detroit Vehicular Traffic in 1928
Author: Detroit (Mich.). Rapid Transit CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The Great American Transit Disaster
Author: Nicholas Dagen BloomPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226824411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.
Housing Betterment #Apr. 1921#-1927
Author: City of Detroit Vehicular Traffic in 1925
Author: Detroit (Mich.). Rapid Transit CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: Street Traffic Bibliography
Author: Harvard University. Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic ResearchPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
City Planning
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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Fighting Traffic
Author: Peter D. NortonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262293889
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.
Municipal Index
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Municipal engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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