The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-centric Planning, and White Flight - Couverture souple

Livre 82 sur 82: Historical Studies of Urban America

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen

 
9780226836621: The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-centric Planning, and White Flight
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ISBN 10 : 0226836622 ISBN 13 : 9780226836621
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

A potent re-examination of America's history of public disinvestment in mass transit.

Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way.

Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy--all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today's conversations about public transportation funding.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Dagen Bloom is professor of urban policy and planning, and director of the Master of Urban Planning Program, at Hunter College. He is the author of numerous books.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226836622
ISBN 13 
9780226836621
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226824406: The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

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ISBN 10 :  0226824403 ISBN 13 :  9780226824406
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2023
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