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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Elkind, Ethan N., 1976-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Urban transportation.
Local transit.
Urban transportation > California.
Local transit > California.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Transports urbains > Californie > Los Angeles.
Transports publics > Californie > Los Angeles.
Urban transportation > California > Los Angeles.
Local transit > California > Los Angeles.
California > Los Angeles.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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