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Suburbanizing the masses : public transport and urban development in historical perspective / edited by Colin Divall and Winstan Bond.
Fine Arts Library HE242.A2 S83 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation--Europe--History.
- Transportation.
- Urbanization--Europe--History.
- Urbanization.
- History.
- Europe.
- Transportation--United States--History.
- United States.
- Urbanization--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Technology, (Sub)urban Development and the Social Construction of Urban Transport / Colin Divall, Barbara Schmucki 1
- Part 1 Transport and (Sub)urban Development
- 1 Between Politics and Technology: Transport as a Factor of Mass Suburbanization in Europe, 1890-1939 / Paolo Capuzzo 23
- 2 The Flawed Economics and Morality of the American Uniform Five-cent Fare / Winstan Bond 49
- 3 Suburbanizing the Masses for Profit or Welfare: Conflict and Cooperation Between Private and Municipal Interests in German Cities, 1890-1914 / Dieter Schott 79
- 4 Suburban Rail in Poland: Decline at the Dawn of Suburbanization? / Jacek Wesolowski 101
- 5 Changing Patterns of Travel, Transport and Land Ownership in a Victorian New Town: Middlesbrough to 1939 / Tony Carr 123
- Part 2 Professional Paradigms of Urban Transport and Traffic
- 6 Cities as Traffic Machines: Urban Transport Planning in East and West Germany / Barbara Schmucki 149
- 7 Vision in Solid Form: A Comparison Between Two Solutions to the Traffic Problem in Stockholm, 1941 and 1992 / Tomas Ekman 171
- 8 Urban Railway Redivivus: Image and Ideology in Los Angeles, California / Robert C. Post 187
- 9 Accounting for the Customers? A Tale of Public Transport in 1930s Coventry / Lesley Whitworth 211
- Part 3 Public Transport and Urban Identities
- 10 Redefining the City: People, Transportation and Space in Philadelphia, 1876-1901 / John H. Hepp, IV 233
- 11 Civic Pride, Urban Identity and Public Transport in Britain, 1880-1980 / Ralph Harrington 251
- 12 Passenger Connections: Views of the Intercity Bus Terminal in the USA / Margaret Walsh 269
- 13 The Transit Destinations of Japanese Public Space: The Case of Nagoya Station / Jilly Traganou 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754607755
- OCLC:
- 50756001
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