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Street fight : the politics of mobility in San Francisco /

Faced with intolerable congestion and noxious pollution, cities around the world are rethinking their reliance on automobiles. In the United States, a loosely organized livability movement seeks to reduce car use by reconfiguring urban space into denser, transit-oriented, walkable forms, a developme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henderson, Jason, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : San Francisco’s politics of mobility
  • How we get there matters : ideologies of mobility
  • San Francisco's mobility stalemate : a historical geography
  • The second freeway revolt : removing the central freeway
  • Between walkability and freeways : the politics of parking in San Francisco
  • "We are not blocking traffic, we are traffic!" : the politics of bicycle space in San Francisco
  • Transit first? : the politics of financing Muni
  • Disciplining Muni : revanchism and the gentrification of transit
  • Conclusion : San Francisco as national bellwether.