Railtown : the fight for the Los Angeles metro rail and the future of the city /

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The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Elkind, Ethan N., 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Local transit > California > Los Angeles.
Urban transportation > California > Los Angeles.
Transports publics > Californie > Los Angeles.
Transports urbains > Californie > Los Angeles.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
Local transit > California.
Urban transportation > California.
Local transit
Urban transportation
California > Los Angeles
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Once and Future Railtown
  • 1. An Eighteen-Month Promise
  • 2. The New Mulholland
  • 3. Bureaucratic Paper Shuffling and Jurisdictional Squabbling
  • 4. Henry Waxman's Hot Air
  • 5. Tunnel Stiffs, Fires, and Sinkholes
  • 6. The Wish List
  • 7. A Knife in the Seat
  • 8. Of Race and Rail
  • 9. Switching Tracks
  • 10. Subway to the Sea
  • Conclusion: The Future of Los Angeles Rail and the American City
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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