Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System - Couverture souple

Healy, Michael C.

 
9781597143707: Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1597143707 ISBN 13 : 9781597143707
Editeur : Heyday Books, 2016

Synopsis

In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, "warts and all." Written with a master storyteller's homey wit and sharp attention to detail, Healy recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. What emerges is a sense of the individuals who made (and make) BART happen. From tales of staying up until 3:00 a.m. with Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote or weathering scandals, strikes, and growing pains, this look behind the scenes of an iconic, seemingly monolithic structure reveals people at their most human--and determined to change the status quo.

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À propos des auteurs

Nicknamed "Mr. BART" by his colleagues, Michael C. Healy was responsible for BART's media affairs and marketing activities from 1971--about ten months before trains started running--until his retirement in 2004. He wrote for radio and film and was the editor of the Sausalito News before taking a public relations job at the nascent transit agency. He is an alumnus of the University of Southern California.

John King is the San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. He joined the paper in 1992 and has been in his current post since 2001. His writing on architecture and urban design has been honored by groups including the California Preservation Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the California chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the American Planning Association. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002 and 2003.

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Éditeur
Heyday Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1597143707
ISBN 13 
9781597143707
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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