The great American transit disaster a century of austerity, auto-centric planning, and white flight

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1. Verfasser: Bloom, Nicholas Dagen 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Historical studies of urban America
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Pre-World War II
  • Part I. Urban Transit Rise and Decline
  • Chapter 1. Baltimore: City Leaders versus Private Transit
  • Chapter 2. Chicago: A Limited Public Commitment to Transit
  • Chapter 3. Boston: Reverse Engineering Public Transit
  • The Postwar Transit Disaster, 1945 to 1980
  • Part II. Unsubsidized Private Transit
  • Chapter 4. Baltimore: Urban Crisis, Race, and Private Transit Collapse
  • Chapter 5. Atlanta: Race, Transit, and the Sunbelt Boom
  • Part III. "Pay as You Go" Public Transit
  • Chapter 6. Chicago: The Failure of "Pay as You Go" Public Transit
  • Chapter 7. Detroit: Racism and America's Worst Big-City Transit
  • Part IV. Public Transit That Worked Better
  • Chapter 8. Boston Pioneers Public Regional Transit
  • Chapter 9. San Francisco: Deeply Subsidized Public Transit
  • Conclusion: Beyond Transit Fatalism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index