Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 2040
Book Description
Examining the Nation's Immediate and Long-term Surface Transportation Capital Needs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 2040
Book Description
Transit-linked Development
Author: Edward L. DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta Metropolitan Area (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Index to Current Urban Documents
Author: Transport of Delight
Author: Jonathan RichmondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Transport of Delight is a true interdisciplinary work, and includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail-the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to justify decisions made on other grounds. This unusual book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the construction of rail passenger transit in Los Angeles when it had little to offer the needs of a dispersed autopolis, whose urgent but dispersed public transportation needs could have been better served by developing the regional bus system. The author conducted interviews and performed the detective work necessary to reveal an unlikely logic that held together a network of symbols, images, and metaphors that together present powerful mythical beliefs in the guise of truth. A political analysis shows how consensus was reached to proceed with the light rail to Long Beach, but political explanations are ultimately found lacking, because they cannot explain why decision-makers would want to put the rail in place. It is only when provocative metaphors-of the need to connect communities and to restore a mythical balance to a dysfunctional transportation system-and symbols-of escape from the pressure cooker of poverty, of urban success, power and, indeed sexual acumen-are surfaced, that we realize that Los Angeles' Transport of Delight is the result of the very human need to transcend complexity by providing mythical creations that appear to offer easy answers to society's deepest problems.
Private Sector Involvement in Urban Transportation
Author: The Struggle for Change
Author: Marvin T. ChilesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081395035X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond’s racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the city’s current racial disparities in economic mobility, housing, and public education actually represent the unintended consequences of Richmond’s racial reconciliation measures. He deftly weaves municipal politics together with grassroots efforts, examining the work and legacies of Richmond’s Black leaders, from Henry Marsh on the city council in the 1960s to Mayor Levar Stoney, to highlight the urban revitalization and public history efforts meant to overcome racial divides after Jim Crow yet which ironically reinforced racial inequality across the city. Compellingly written, this project carries both local and broader regional significance for Richmonders, Virginians, southerners, and all Americans.
Making Transit Work
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for an International Comparison of National Policies and Expectations Affecting Public TransitPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, National Research Council
ISBN: 9780309067485
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This report was prepared for policy makers searching for ways to boost public transit use in U.S. urban areas and wishing to know what can be learned from the experiences of Canada and Western Europe. Describes the differences in public transit use among U.S., Canadian, and Western European cities; identifies those factors, from urban form to automobile usage, that have contributed to these differences; and offers hypotheses about the reasons for these differences--from historical, demographic, and economic conditions to specific public policies, such as automobile taxation and urban land use regulation.
Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: Department of Housing and Urban Development--independent Agencies Appropriations for 1985: Veterans Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Department of Housing and Urban Development--independent Agencies Appropriations for 1985
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description