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Mass Transit And The Politics Of Technology
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Author : Stephen Zwerling
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1974
Mass Transit And The Politics Of Technology written by Stephen Zwerling and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
Urban Mass Transit
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Author : Robert C. Post
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-15
Urban Mass Transit written by Robert C. Post and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Technological choices depend on, and are part of, contests over political power, as the history of mass transit vividly illustrates. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to light rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities. Post depicts mass transit as a technology—rather, as a technological system—that provided an essential complement to industrialization, urbanization, and, ultimately, to the rise of consumer culture. He begins his narrative with the omnibus and horsecar in the 1830s and takes it to the renaissance of urban mass transit at the turn of the 21st century. Post focuses on innovations in the United States as well as worldwide developments. At the heart of the story is the streetcar, a conveyance that played a central role in the development of all U.S. cities and towns. For generations of Americans, streetcars were essential to everyday life. Once dominating the urban landscape in towns and cities throughout the United States, the streetcar has all but disappeared. Post traces its evolution and demise, debunking the urban myth that the downfall of the electric streetcar was directly attributable to the corporate malfeasance of General Motors and others from the automotive world. Post concludes with a meditation on the prospects for mass transit in a postmodern society that must face up to the contradictions of privatized mobility and the reality of dwindling natural resources.
Urban Elites And Mass Transportation
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Author : J. Allen Whitt
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Urban Elites And Mass Transportation written by J. Allen Whitt and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Transportation categories.
In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Impact Of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology
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Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Impact Of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Government publications categories.
Mass Transit And The Politics Of Technology
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Author : Stephen Zwerling
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Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1974
Mass Transit And The Politics Of Technology written by Stephen Zwerling and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
Urban Mass Transit R D
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Communications
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Urban Mass Transit R D written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Communications and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Government publications categories.
Aramis Or The Love Of Technology
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Author : Bruno Latour
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1996-04-01
Aramis Or The Love Of Technology written by Bruno Latour and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Bruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong. The story of the birth and death of Aramis—the guided-transportation system intended for Paris—is told in this thought-provoking and fictional account by several different parties: an engineer and his professor; company executives and elected officials; a sociologist; and finally Aramis itself, who delivers a passionate plea on behalf of technological innovations that risk being abandoned by their makers. As the young engineer and professor follow Aramis’s trail—conducting interviews, analyzing documents, assessing the evidence—perspectives keep shifting: the truth is revealed as multilayered, unascertainable, comprising an array of possibilities worthy of Rashomon. This charming and profound book, part novel and part sociological study, is Latour at his thought-provoking best.
The Politics Of Soviet Education
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Author : George Z. Bereday
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1976-05-28
The Politics Of Soviet Education written by George Z. Bereday and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-05-28 with Education categories.
An Assessment Of Community Planning For Mass Transit San Francisco Case Study
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Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
An Assessment Of Community Planning For Mass Transit San Francisco Case Study written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with City planning categories.
Assembling Bus Rapid Transit In The Global South
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Author : Malve Jacobsen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-13
Assembling Bus Rapid Transit In The Global South written by Malve Jacobsen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-13 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades. It analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for the Global South. The book elucidates how policy models are constructed and circulated around the globe and depicts the processes by which they are translated between, and materialise within, specific contexts. It presents the case of BRT to demonstrate how technocrats shape these processes through persuasive work aimed at disseminating and stabilising this transport model, and how local actors influence its adaptation in Dar es Salaam. The book adopts a ‘double mobility’ approach to show how this ethnography follows travelling consultants, circulating policies and moving buses to explore the fluidity of the BRT model. Linking key debates in policy mobility studies and Science and Technology Studies, enriched with postcolonial perspectives and geographies of transport and infrastructure, it offers new insights into the technopolitics of planning and implementing infrastructure systems. This book will appeal to academics and students of human geography, transport studies, science and technology studies, and African and development studies interested in the technopolitics of transport planning.