Urban elites and mass transportation : the dialectics of power / J. Allen Whitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitt, J. Allen, 1940- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban transportation--California.

Urban transportation.

Local transit--California.

Local transit.

Elite (Social sciences)--California.

Elite (Social sciences).

Community power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One. The Pluralist, Elitist, and Dialectical Models

Chapter Two. Bart and the Gentlemen Engineers

Chapter Three. Trying to Emulate Bart: The Los Angeles Campaigns

Chapter Four. The California Highway Trust Fund: The Lobby Shows Its Hand

Chapter Five. What These Campaigns Tell Us About Political Power: The Pluralist and Elitist Interpretations

Chapter Six. The Dialectical Politics of Transit

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [211]-222.

ISBN:

9781400857456

1400857457

OCLC:

1013966447