Railtown : the fight for the Los Angeles metro rail and the future of the city /

The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a...

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Hlavní autor: Elkind, Ethan N., 1976- (Autor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]
Témata:
metro > dějiny > Los Angeles
městská doprava > Los Angeles
veřejná doprava > Los Angeles
subway > history > Los Angeles
urban transportation > Los Angeles
public transport > Los Angeles
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Obsah:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Once and Future Railtown
  • 1. An Eighteen-Month Promise
  • 2. The New Mulholland
  • 3. Bureaucratic Paper Shuffling and Jurisdictional Squabbling
  • 4. Henry Waxman's Hot Air
  • 5. Tunnel Stiffs, Fires, and Sinkholes
  • 6. The Wish List
  • 7. A Knife in the Seat
  • 8. Of Race and Rail
  • 9. Switching Tracks
  • 10. Subway to the Sea
  • Conclusion: The Future of Los Angeles Rail and the American City
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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