Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology

by Robert C. Post

Book Overview

Technological choices depend on, and are part of, contests over political power, as the history of mass transit vividly illustrates. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to light rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities.

Post depicts mass transit as a technology--rather, as a technological system--that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801893151
• ISBN13: 9780801893155
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"