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Street fight : the politics of mobility in San Francisco / Jason Henderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Jason, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban transportation--Political aspects--California--San Francisco.
- Urban transportation.
- Transportation--Planning--California--San Francisco.
- Transportation.
- City planning--California--San Francisco.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Faced with intolerable congestion and noxious pollution, cities around the world are rethinking their reliance on automobiles.In the United States a loosely organized livability movement seeks to reduce car use by reconfiguring urban space into denser, transit-oriented, walkable forms, a development pattern also associated with smart growth and.
- Contents:
- How we get there matters: ideologies of mobility
- San Francisco's mobility stalemate: a historical geography
- The second freeway revolt: removing the central freeway
- Between walkability and freeways: the politics of parking in San Francisco
- "We are not blocking traffic, we are traffic": the politics of bicycle space in San Francisco
- Transit first? The politics of financing Muni
- Disciplining Muni: revanchism and the gentrification of transit.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-260-7
- OCLC:
- 846496638
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