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Subtitle
A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
EAN
9780226824406
ISBN
9780226824406
Release Year
2023
Book Title
The Great American Transit Disaster
Book Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Title
The Great American Transit Disaster
ISBN-10
0226824403
Genre
Science Nature & Math
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Public Transportation, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General
Release Date
03/05/2023
Subject Area
Transportation, History, Political Science
Publication Name
Great American Transit Disaster : a Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication Year
2023
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
22.1 Oz
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226824403
ISBN-13
9780226824406
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17058364601

Product Key Features

Author
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publication Name
Great American Transit Disaster : a Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Public Transportation, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General
Publication Year
2023
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
22.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2022-029933
Lc Classification Number
He308.B56 2023
Reviews
The Great American Transit Disaster presents a thoughtful and thorough history of public transit development in a number of major American cities. As in his previous books, Bloom makes a significant contribution to the history of twentieth-century urban America., American transit agencies are standing on the brink of a devastating fiscal cliff. . . . Dire though the present situation is, this is hardly the first time that transit officials have been locked in a Sisyphean struggle to maintain service levels with shrinking funding and ridership. As Bloom, a professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College, describes in his new book, The Great American Transit Disaster , US public transportation has lurched from one crisis to the next throughout the past century., Bloom makes a compelling case that Americans did this to themselves by demanding better streets for cars at the expense of transit, and favoring low-density, suburban living that makes cars indispensable and transit hard to justify. . . . The book's greatest strength is its hard look at how racism helped ruin US transit., Bloom begins The Great American Transit Disaster by debunking the popular historical conspiracy that big auto and tire manufacturers destroyed a robust urban streetcar system in the United States. But if it wasn't an elaborate and nefarious plot on the part of the automobile industry to destroy a dense network of public urban transportation, what did? . . . This question sits at the center of Bloom's extensively researched and expertly argued exploration of the demise of urban public transit in the United States. And, as in the best historical research and writing, his answer is layered and multifaceted., Bloom is a distinguished and prolific scholar of American urban politics. In this cogent and deeply researched book, he seeks to explain why leaders in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, and Chicago chose to invest in highways and airways rather than mass transit. Bloom, wisely and perceptively, avoids discredited anti-bus and anti-streetcar ideas, focusing instead on pay-as-you-go transit, auto-centric planning, and white flight. Nick Bloom, as always, is readable, assignable, and compelling., In this excellent socioeconomic history, Bloom offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of US mass transit, skillfully assessing successes and stumbles so that we may learn from them and correct course., Serves as a powerful introduction for urban scholars, practitioners, and students interested in American public transit policy. Offering extensive historical hindsight, the book nicely prefaces any consideration of current trends related to public transit.
Table of Content
Introduction Pre-World War II Part 1 Urban Transit Rise and Decline Chapter 1 Baltimore: City Leaders versus Private Transit Chapter 2 Chicago: A Limited Public Commitment to Transit Chapter 3 Boston: Reverse Engineering Public Transit The Postwar Transit Disaster, 1945 to 1980 Part 2 Unsubsidized Private Transit Chapter 4 Baltimore: Urban Crisis, Race, and Private Transit Collapse Chapter 5 Atlanta: Race, Transit, and the Sunbelt Boom Part 3 "Pay as You Go" Public Transit Chapters 6 Chicago: The Failure of "Pay as You Go" Public Transit Chapter 7 Detroit: Racism and America's Worst Big-City Transit Part 4: Public Transit That Worked Better Chapter 8 Boston Pioneers Public Regional Transit Chapter 9 San Francisco: Deeply Subsidized Public Transit Conclusion Beyond Transit Fatalism Acknowledgments Notes Index
Copyright Date
2023
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
388.40973
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20220812
Illustrated
Yes

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