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1) The great American transit disaster: a century of austerity, auto-centric planning, and white flight
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages : color illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why is it that the mass transit systems of American cities are, by and large, inadequate? It's a common question and one that has generated substantial scholarship. But Jake Berman's The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider it: a visual-and fun-journey through the past, present, and possible future of urban transit. Featuring Berman's own colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit,...
3) The race underground: Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway
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Language
English
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"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...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 575 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Comprehensive history of public transportation infrastructure and the modes of transit that have moved Boston for nearly four centuries"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
56 p. : col. ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Big Dig, we are taken behind the scenes of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project to discover how traffic in Boston got to be so bad in the first place, and how poor planning led to an elevated highway that divided the city and made traffic worse.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the late 19th century, as America₂s teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its citizenry to construct America's first subway.
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