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

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
Main Author: Elkind, Ethan N., 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014
Berkeley, CA : [2014]
Subjects:
Local transit > California > Los Angeles
Urban transportation > California > Los Angeles
Transports publics > Californie > Los Angeles
Transports urbains > Californie > Los Angeles
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Local transit
Local transit > California
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation
Urban transportation
Urban transportation > California
California > Los Angeles
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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
  • 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
  • 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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