Automobiles dominate transportation today in most American cities. After World War II, urban planners embraced highway transportation as the solution to urban congestion, while mass transit was shunned as outmoded and appropriate only for older, densely populated cities. Yet the prolonged energy crisis, beginning in 1973, shattered most previously held attitudes about the role of mass transit, and it was now promoted as central to energy efficiency and rational land use. If mass transit is now possible and even desirable in new, auto-oriented cities - Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Tokyo - why did it decline in the first place? In examining the historical conditions that led to the current crisis of urban transportation, the book offers an explanation of past urban and economic policy failures. The Decline of Transit will be essential reading for urban planners, politicians, economists, historians, and all others interested in the state of urban transportation today.
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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Twentieth-century mass transit in German and US cities; 3. The formation of national transportation policy: the case of Germany; 4. The formation of national transportation policy: the case of the United States; 5. Transportation politics: the case of Frankfurt am Main; 6. Transportation politics: the case of Chicago; 7. Conclusion: urban transportation for whom?; Statistical appendix; Notes; References; Index.
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'Dr. Yago has done a great service by clearly delineating the deplorable state of public transportation in the United States. His book provides a powerful motivation for, at last, bringing American public transportation up to the level which is common in other industrialized countries.' Barry Commoner, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
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An examination of the social, political and technological forces that shaped our cities and their transportation systems.

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ISBN
9780521027632
Publisert
2006-11-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
436 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

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