Author: Joseph R. BeckPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Urban Mass Transit, a Guide to Organizations and Information Resources
Author: Joseph R. BeckPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Urban Mass Transit R. D.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and TechnologyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Center City Environment and Transportation
Author: Public Technology, incPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Urban Mass Transportation
Author: George M. SmerkPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Urban Transportation Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Urban Mass Transit
Author: Robert C. PostPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801893155
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Technological choices depend on, and are part of, contests over political power, as the history of mass transit vividly illustrates. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to light rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities. Post depicts mass transit as a technology—rather, as a technological system—that provided an essential complement to industrialization, urbanization, and, ultimately, to the rise of consumer culture. He begins his narrative with the omnibus and horsecar in the 1830s and takes it to the renaissance of urban mass transit at the turn of the 21st century. Post focuses on innovations in the United States as well as worldwide developments. At the heart of the story is the streetcar, a conveyance that played a central role in the development of all U.S. cities and towns. For generations of Americans, streetcars were essential to everyday life. Once dominating the urban landscape in towns and cities throughout the United States, the streetcar has all but disappeared. Post traces its evolution and demise, debunking the urban myth that the downfall of the electric streetcar was directly attributable to the corporate malfeasance of General Motors and others from the automotive world. Post concludes with a meditation on the prospects for mass transit in a postmodern society that must face up to the contradictions of privatized mobility and the reality of dwindling natural resources.
Highway & Urban Mass Transportation
Author: The Federal Role in Urban Mass Transportation
Author: George M. SmerkPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
"Smerk's account, thankfully, is not just another exercise in quantitative analysis. He makes his points with words and sentences, not numbers and charts. The result is a free-flowing narrative in which changes in federal policy over the years are shown to have occurred because people interacted within certain political frames of reference. . . . I highly recommend this book . . . " —Brian J. Cudahy, Business Horizons " . . . a solid history of an important component of modern public policy . . . ably integrated with scholarship on metropolitan development so that urbanists can learn much here." —Choice "This book is 'must' reading for anyone who has deep interests in transit issues specifically and transportation problems in general, but it is also for all those who are more than casually curious about the dynamics of urbanization." —Economic Geography " . . . a highly in-depth study of the impact of governmental policies on the mass transit industry over the last few decades and where it may soon be heading." —Railfan and Railroad Magazine " . . . a timely and important book." —Business History Review This important new book is the only available comprehensive survey and analysis of federal policies and programs for urban mass transit. It is a must book for anyone interested in the plight of our cities and the efforts being made to solve our transportation problems.
Emergency Urban Mass Transit Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Urban Mass Transit
Author: Suzanne de LessepsPublisher:
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Category : Commercial vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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