Straphanger Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

Name: Straphanger Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
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ISBN: 9780805091731

ISBN-10: 0805091734

ISBN-13: 9780805091731

Edition: 2012

Authors: Taras Grescoe

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Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering—a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford insurance, or too decrepit to get behind the wheel of a car. Indeed, a century of auto-centric culture and city planning has left most of the country with public transportation that is underfunded, ill maintained, and ill conceived. But as the demand for petroleum is fast outpacing the world's supply,…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Prologue


Shanghai, China


Introduction


Confessions of a Straphanger



The Subway that Time Forgot


New York, New York



Only Connect


Los Angeles, California



The Highway to Hell


Phoenix, Arizona



The Salvation of Paris


Paris, France



The Copenhagen Syndrome


Copenhagen, Denmark



Fools and Roads


Moscow, Russia



City of Trains


Tokyo, Japan



The Revenge of the Loser Cruiser


Bogotï¿½, Colombia



Good Bones


Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia



The Next Great City


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Conclusion


Montreal, Quebec


Sources


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index