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The Great American Transit Disaster

- A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
Af: Nicholas Dagen Bloom Engelsk Paperback

The Great American Transit Disaster

- A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
Af: Nicholas Dagen Bloom Engelsk Paperback
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A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.   Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way.   Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.
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A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.   Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way.   Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9780226836621
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226836622
Kategori: Historie
Udg. Dato: 25 sep 2024
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 153mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 25 sep 2024
Forfatter(e): Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Forfatter(e) Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Kategori Historie

ISBN-13 9780226836621

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 153mm

Højde 228mm

Udg. Dato 25 sep 2024

Oplagsdato 25 sep 2024

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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