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

"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"--

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Bloom Nicholas Dagen, Nicholas Dagen Bloom
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.09.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780226836621
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83662-1
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
• Subjects: History, Urban Planning, TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Transport planning and policy, Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest, Urban policy, Buses, Race Relations, rapid transit, mass transit management, streetcar conspiracy, mass transit funding, streetcars