The great American transit disaster : a century of austerity, auto-centric planning, and white flight / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2023
HE308 .B56 2023
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Title
The great American transit disaster : a century of austerity, auto-centric planning, and white flight / Nicholas Dagen Bloom.
Author
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969- author.
ISBN
9780226824413
0226824411
9780226824406
0226824403
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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HE308 .B56 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
388.40973
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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ProQuest (Firm)
Series
Historical studies of urban America.
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Print version: 0226824403
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Introduction
Pre-World War II
Part I: Urban transit rise and decline
Baltimore: City leaders versus private transit
Chicago: A limited public commitment to transit
Boston: Reverse engineering public transit
The postwar transit disaster, 1945 to 1980
Part II: Unsubsidized private transit
Baltimore: Urban crisis, race, and private transit collapse
Atlanta: Race, transit, and the sunbelt boom
Part III: 'Pay as you go' public transit
Chicago: The failure of 'pay as you go' public transit
Detroit: Racism and America's worst big-city transit
Part IV: Public transit that worked better
Boston pioneers public regional transit
San Francisco: Deeply subsidized public transit
Conclusion: Beyond transit fatalism.

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