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Choice of transportation City planning Environmental aspects Local transit Ridership Local transit Social aspects POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development TRANSPORTATION / General Urban transportation Urban transportation Social aspects Whitney, Henry Melville 1839-1923 Whitney, William C. (William Collins) 1841-1904Verkade, Thalia.
Summary: Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities.Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question: who do our streets belong to? Although there have been experiments in decreasing traffic in city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.41 VERSummary: In the late 19th century, as America's 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RACReis, Ronald A.
Summary: Describes the history of the New York City subway system and how it was built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 388.428 REIEngwicht, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishing 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.4 ENGGrescoe, Taras.
Summary: "Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering--a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2012