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7) The great American transit disaster: a century of austerity, auto-centric planning, and white flight
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"One of the most enduring American urban myths concerns the death of the Red Car Trolley, an extensive and equitable system in Los Angeles County that some say was weakened and then eradicated by US car manufacturers. Yet as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows, an array of larger yet less tangible forces together interacted to practically murder public transportation of all kinds in cities nationwide. Most centrally, public transit collapsed because essentially...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Confessions of a Recovering Engineer will be a logical Part 2' to Chuck's book Strong Towns. It builds on Strong Towns: Bottom-Up Revolution by focusing on the core transportation insights Marohn has developed in more than a decade of writing for Strong Towns. The article Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (November 2011) remains the most widely read and distributed piece ever published on the Strong Towns website. A In the past few years, we have...
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Pub. Date
c2006
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"This documentary exposes the negative impacts of sprawl on the largest U.S. cities and the promise of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) as an alternative. The film explores the characteristics of successful TODs, interviewing experts such as Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, Denver's Planning Director Peter Park, David Dixon of Goody Clancy, Peter Calthorpe of Calthorpe Associates and President and CEO Shelly Poticha of Reconnecting...
11) The race underground: Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
"In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers--Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City--pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great race was on. The competition...