Berlin Gleisplane Track Maps S Bahn U Bahn Tram
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Berlin Gleisplane Track Maps S Bahn U Bahn Tram
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Author : Quail Map Company
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-11-01
Berlin Gleisplane Track Maps S Bahn U Bahn Tram written by Quail Map Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-01 with Railroads categories.
Trains Buses People
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Author : Christof Spieler
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2018-10-23
Trains Buses People written by Christof Spieler and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Transportation categories.
What are the best transit cities in the US? The best Bus Rapid Transit lines? The most useless rail transit lines? The missed opportunities? In the US, the 25 largest metropolitan areas and many smaller cities have fixed guideway transit—rail or bus rapid transit. Nearly all of them are talking about expanding. Yet discussions about transit are still remarkably unsophisticated. To build good transit, the discussion needs to focus on what matters—quality of service (not the technology that delivers it), all kinds of transit riders, the role of buildings, streets and sidewalks, and, above all, getting transit in the right places. Christof Spieler has spent over a decade advocating for transit as a writer, community leader, urban planner, transit board member, and enthusiast. He strongly believes that just about anyone—regardless of training or experience—can identify what makes good transit with the right information. In the fun and accessible Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit, Spieler shows how cities can build successful transit. He profiles the 47 metropolitan areas in the US that have rail transit or BRT, using data, photos, and maps for easy comparison. The best and worst systems are ranked and Spieler offers analysis of how geography, politics, and history complicate transit planning. He shows how the unique circumstances of every city have resulted in very different transit systems. Using appealing visuals, Trains, Buses, People is intended for non-experts—it will help any citizen, professional, or policymaker with a vested interest evaluate a transit proposal and understand what makes transit effective. While the book is built on data, it has a strong point of view. Spieler takes an honest look at what makes good and bad transit and is not afraid to look at what went wrong. He explains broad concepts, but recognizes all of the technical, geographical, and political difficulties of building transit in the real world. In the end,Trains, Buses, People shows that it is possible with the right tools to build good transit.
The Tunnels
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Author : Greg Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2016-10-18
The Tunnels written by Greg Mitchell and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with History categories.
A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall. In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then two U.S. television networks heard about the secret projects and raced to be first to document them from the inside. NBC and CBS funded two separate tunnels in return for the right to film the escapes, planning spectacular prime-time specials. President John F. Kennedy, however, was wary of anything that might spark a confrontation with the Soviets, having said, “A wall is better than a war,” and even confessing to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “We don’t care about East Berlin.” JFK approved unprecedented maneuvers to quash both documentaries, testing the limits of a free press in an era of escalating nuclear tensions. As Greg Mitchell’s riveting narrative unfolds, we meet extraordinary characters: the legendary cyclist who became East Germany’s top target for arrest; the Stasi informer who betrays the “CBS tunnel”; the American student who aided the escapes; an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English channel; and the young East Berliner who fled with her baby, then married one of the tunnelers. The Tunnels captures the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police as U.S. networks prepared to “pay for play” but were willing to cave to official pressure, the White House was eager to suppress historic coverage, and ordinary people in dire circumstances became subversive. The Tunnels is breaking history, a propulsive read whose themes still reverberate.
The Greatest Childhood In The Rubble In Berlin
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Author : Heidi Ebelt
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2013-11-13
The Greatest Childhood In The Rubble In Berlin written by Heidi Ebelt and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-13 with History categories.
The authors story is based on her life as she remembers it. It is set against the background of real historical events in WWII. Growing up during the last three years of the war in Berlin, the sirens, their endless flight on the trains out of and back to Berlin, became part of her life, there was no birthday party for the three year old and again the family was on the move, this time to live in a castle in Thuringia. All these events were accepted without questions or fear. In 1946 they returned to the old neighborhood which had become a rubble desert but soon transformed into the greatest childhood as her dying older sister insisted time again and again. Most names have been changed to protect the living. I owe a great debt to my father and mother who have answered my many questions and I included their stories in this book.
Refuge In Hell
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Author : Daniel B. Silver
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2004-09-15
Refuge In Hell written by Daniel B. Silver and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-15 with History categories.
“Fascinating footnote to Holocaust history . . . a Jewish hospital in the heart of Berlin that treated patients to the very end of Hitler’s reign” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) “One of the most incredible stories of World War II.” —Dallas Morning News How did Berlin’s Jewish Hospital, in the middle of the Nazi capital, survive as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish patients throughout World War II? How could it happen that when Soviet troops liberated the hospital in April 1945, they found some eight hundred Jews still on the premises? Daniel Silver carefully uncovers the often surprising answers to these questions and, through the skillful use of primary source materials and the vivid voices of survivors, reveals the underlying complexities of human conscience. The story centers on the intricate machinations of the hospital’s director, Herr Dr. Lustig, a German-born Jew whose life-and-death power over medical staff and patients and finely honed relationship with his own boss, the infamous Adolf Eichmann, provide vital pieces to the puzzle—some have said the miracle—of the hospital’s survival. Silver illuminates how the tortured shifts in Nazi policy toward intermarriage and so-called racial segregation provided a further, if hugely counterintuitive, shelter from the storm for the hospital’s resident Jews. Scenes of daily life in the hospital paint an often heroic and always provocative picture of triage at its most chillingly existential. Not since Schindler’s List have we had such a haunting story of the costs and mysteries of individual survival in the midst of a human-created hell. “Gripping . . . one physician’s actions are depicted in all their fascinating complexity.” —The Washington Post Book World
Trains Buses People Second Edition
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Author : Christof Spieler
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2021-08-24
Trains Buses People Second Edition written by Christof Spieler and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Architecture categories.
"Fully updated and expanded"--Back cover.
The Street Railway Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Street Railway Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Electric railroads categories.
The Berlin U Bahn
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Author : Brian Hardy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Berlin U Bahn written by Brian Hardy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Subways categories.
Tunneling To The Future
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Author : Peter Derrick
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2002-04
Tunneling To The Future written by Peter Derrick and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04 with History categories.
Derrick (archivist, Bronx County Historical Society) tells the story of what was, at the time, the largest and most expensive single municipal project ever attempted--the 1913 expansion of the New York City Dual System of Rapid Transit. He considers the factors motivating the expansion, the process of its design, the controversies surrounding financing it, and its impact on New York then and today. Appendixes summarize the contracts and related certificates and list the opening dates of Dual System lines. Twenty-four pages of photographs are also included. c. Book News Inc.
New York City Subways
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Author : Tom Range
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2002
New York City Subways written by Tom Range and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
New York City Subways traces the history of mass transportation in Manhattan and New York City's outer boroughs. Public transportation has long been vital to the city, with horse-drawn surface lines established by 1831 and elevated railroad lines constructed during the 1870s and 1880s. The concept of subways, railroads operating underground, originated in London in 1863 and was applied to New York City by 1904. This collection of vintage postcards brings you through the tunnels of the subway, onto the platforms of the long-gone els, and examines New York's renowned terminals, especially Grand Central and Penn Station.