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

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

ISBN 10: 0226836622 / ISBN 13: 9780226836621

Edité par University Of Chicago Press Sep 2024, 2024

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Neuware - 'One of the most enduring American urban myths concerns the death of the Red Car Trolley, an extensive and equitable system in Los Angeles County that some say was weakened and then eradicated by US car manufacturers. Yet as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows, an array of larger yet less tangible forces together interacted to practically murder public transportation of all kinds in cities nationwide. Most centrally, public transit collapsed because essentially we wanted it to-no conspiracy necessary. Detailing the histories of transportation in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco, Bloom seeks to set all of our transit myths to rest for the sake not only of accuracy but in order to enrich our conversations about public transportation funding today'.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Great American Transit Disaster : A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
• Éditeur: University Of Chicago Press Sep 2024
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226836622
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226836621
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 226 L x 150 H x 21 P (en millimètres) 226 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 21 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 490 grammes

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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.

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.