Urban Elites and Mass Transportation : The Dialectics of Power /

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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.Originall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitt, J. Allen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 526
Temas:
Community power.
Elite (Social sciences) > California.
Local transit > California.
Urban transportation > California.
TRANSPORTATION / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Pluralist, Elitist, and Dialectical Models
  • Chapter Two. Bart and the Gentlemen Engineers
  • Chapter Three. Trying to Emulate Bart: The Los Angeles Campaigns
  • Chapter Four. The California Highway Trust Fund: The Lobby Shows Its Hand
  • Chapter Five. What These Campaigns Tell Us About Political Power: The Pluralist and Elitist Interpretations
  • Chapter Six. The Dialectical Politics of Transit
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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