The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970

by Glenn Yago

Automobiles dominate transportation today in most American cities. After World War II, urban planners embraced highway transportation as the solution to urban congestion, while mass transit was shunned as outmoded and appropriate only for older, densely populated cities. Yet the prolonged energy crisis, beginning in 1973, shattered most previously held attitudes about the role of mass transit, and it was now promoted as central to energy efficiency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027632
• ISBN13: 9780521027632
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"