Author: Robert PeschkesPublisher: Rapid Transit Press
ISBN: 9780948619069
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems: North America
Author: Robert PeschkesPublisher: Rapid Transit Press
ISBN: 9780948619069
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems
Author: Robert PeschkesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780948619007
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Earthopolis
Author: Carl H. NightingalePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108645380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new consequences and opening prospects for new hope. In Earthopolis we peek into our cities' homes, neighborhoods, streets, shops, eating houses, squares, marketplaces, religious sites, schools, universities, offices, monuments, docklands, and airports to discover connections between small spaces and the largest things we have built. The book exposes the Urban Planet's deep inequalities of power, wealth, access to knowledge, class, race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. It asks us to draw on the most just and democratic moments of Earthopolis's past to rescue its future.
World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems
Author: Robert PeschkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Author: Ralf RothPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000591220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year existence, The City and the Railway in the World shows that urban railways are still politically and historically important to the modern world. Since its inception, cities have played a significant role in the railway system; cities were among the main reasons for building such efficient but lavish and costly modes of transport for persons, goods, and information. They also influenced the technological appearance of railways as these have had to meet particular demands for transport in urban areas. In 25 essays, this volume demonstrates that the relationship between the city and the railway is one of the most publicly debated themes in the context of daily lives in growing urban settings, as well as in the second urbanisation of the global South with migration from rural to urban landscapes. The volume’s broad geographical range includes discussions of railway networks, railway stations, and urban rails in countries such as India, Japan, England, Belgium, Romania, Nigeria, the USA, and Mexico. The City and the Railway in the World will be a useful tool for scholars interested in the history of transport, travel, and urban change.
World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems
Author: Robert PeschkesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780948619014
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems: North America
Author: Robert PeschkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dictionary of Lexicography
Author: R. R. K. HartmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134768281
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offer? How can we evaluate them? The Dictionary of Lexicography provides answers to all these questions and addresses a wide range of issues: * the traditions of dictionary-making * the different types of dictionaries and other reference works (such as thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas and telephone directory) * the principles and concerns of lexicographers and other reference professionals * the standards of dictionary criticism and dictionary use. It is both a professional handbook and an easy-to-use reference work. This is the first time that the subject has been covered in such a comprehensive manner in the form of a reference book. All articles are self-contained, cross-referenced and uniformly structured. The whole is an up-to-date and forward-looking survey of lexicography.
Railfan & Railroad
Author: Urban Transport
Author: J. McConvillePublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A bibliography of over 3000 entries on urban transport. Urban transport is defined as the movement of people and materials through, or within, the environs of towns and cities, irrespective of mode, and encompasses commercial, public, private, pedestrian and cycle traffic. This text provides a compilation of economic, social, political, legal and development literature on the subject.