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The Decline of Transit - Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970 (Paperback, New ed) Loot Price: R1,034
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The Decline of Transit - Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970 (Paperback, New ed): Glenn Yago

The Decline of Transit - Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970 (Paperback, New ed)

Glenn Yago

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2006
First published: 1984
Authors: Glenn Yago
Dimensions: 233 x 154 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 304
Edition: New ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02763-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Transport planning & policy > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
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LSN: 0-521-02763-2
Barcode: 9780521027632

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