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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-288) and index.
• The rise and fall of automobile dependence — Urban transportation patterns and trends in global cities — Emerging cities and automobile dependence — The theory of urban fabrics: understanding the end of automobile dependence — Transportation planning: hindrance or help? — Overcoming barriers to the end of automobile dependence — The end of automobile dependence: a troubling prognosis? — Conclusion: Life after automobile dependence.
• In The End of Automobile Dependence, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes, with a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated data on 44 global cities to better understand how to facilitate and guide cities to the most productive and sustainable outcomes.

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• Urban transportation policy.
• Urban transportation — Environmental aspects.
• Sustainable development.
• Land use, Urban.
• Automobiles — Environmental aspects.

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• Emma Morris, Flavia Fontes, editors Charles Newman, original music Tom Hurwitz, Janet Kern, cinematographers.
• DVD NTSC.
• Includes full public screening rights for non-profits, public schools, university libraries/departments, corporations, etc. CU-AVMC
• In English.
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• For hundreds of years, the Nez Perce were recognized as one of America’s greatest horse tribes. In the 21st century they made a decision both reverent and bold: to bring horses back to their tribal lands and lives, and to bring the powerful medicine of horses to their children. Horse Tribe is an epic story of vision and grit, a community in conflict, a man in crisis, and a beloved herd at risk –Container.

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• Nez Perce Tribe — Social life and customs.
• Horses — Breeding — Idaho.
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• With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. Gridlock Sam, one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America’s urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place. When Sam Schwartz was growing up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn-his block belonged to his community: the kids who played punchball and stickball & their parents, who’d regularly walk to the local businesses at which they also worked. He didn’t realize it then, but Bensonhurst was already more like a museum of a long-forgotten way-of-life than a picture of America’s future. Public transit traveled over and under city streets-New York’s first subway line opened in 1904-but the streets themselves had been conquered by the internal combustion engine. America’s dependency on the automobile began with the 1908 introduction of Henry Ford’s car-for-everyone, the Model T. The battle for right-of-way in the 1920s saw the demise of streetcars and transformed America’s streets from a multiuse resource for socializing, commerce, and public mobility into exclusive arteries for private automobiles. The subsequent destruction of urban transit systems and post WWII suburbanization of America enabled by the Interstate Highway System and the GI Bill forever changed the way Americans commuted. But today, for the first time in history, and after a hundred years of steady increase, automobile driving is in decline. Younger Americans increasingly prefer active transportation choices like walking or cycling and taking public transit, ride-shares or taxis. This isn’t a consequence of higher gas prices, or even the economic downturn, but rather a collective decision to be a lot less dependent on cars-and if American cities want to keep their younger populations, they need to plan accordingly. In Street
• America’s dependency on the automobile began with the 1908 introduction of Henry Ford’s car-for-everyone, the Model T. The battle for right-of-way in the 1920s saw the demise of streetcars and transformed America’s streets from a multiuse resource for socializing, commerce, and public mobility into exclusive arteries for private automobiles. The subsequent destruction of urban transit systems and post WWII suburbanization of America enabled by the Interstate Highway System and the GI Bill forever changed the way Americans commuted. But today, for the first time in history, and after a hundred years of steady increase, automobile driving is in decline. Younger Americans increasingly prefer active transportation choices like walking or cycling and taking public transit, ride-shares or taxis. This isn’t a consequence of higher gas prices, or even the economic downturn, but rather a collective decision to be a lot less dependent on cars–and if American cities want to keep their younger populations, they need to plan accordingly. In Street Smart, Sam Schwartz explains how. In this clear and erudite presentation of the principles of smart transportation and sustainable urban planning–from the simplest cobblestoned street to the brave new world of driverless cars and trains–Sam Schwartz combines rigorous historical scholarship with the personal and entertaining recollections of a man who has spent more than forty years working on planning intelligent transit networks in New York City. Street Smart is a book for everyone who wants to know more about the who, what, when, where, and why of human mobility — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 253 -274) and index.
• Prologue : Bedford and Sullivan — Motordom — For every action … — The millennials — Healthier, wealthier, and wiser — Walk on by — Unlocking the grid — What makes a smart city? — Tuxedos on the subway : transportation anywhere, anytime, and for everybody — Epilogue : Flatbush and Atlantic.
• Prologue: Bedford and Sullivan — Motordom — For every action — Millennials — Healthier, wealthier, and wiser — Walk on by — Unlocking the grid — What makes a smart city? — Tuxedos on the subway: transportation anywhere, anytime, and for everybody — Epilogue: Flatbush and Atlantic — Acknowledgments — Notes — Bibliography — Index.
• On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York’s West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn’t. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had induced the demand for car travel. It was a classic case of build it and they will come, but for the first time the opposite had been shown to be true: knock it down and they will go away. Samuel I Schwartz was inspired by the lesson. He started to reimagine cities, freed from their obligation to cars. Eventually, he found, he was not alone. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a revolution has taken place: every year Americans are driving fewer miles. And the generation named for this new century-the Millennials-are driving least of all. Not because they can’t afford to they don’t want to. They have better ideas for how to use their streets. An urban transformation is underway, and smart streets are at the heart of it. Schwartz’s Street Smart is a history of the struggle for control of American cities, and an off-road map to a more vibrant, active, and vigorous urban future.

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• Local transit — United States.
• Urban transportation — United States.
• City planning — United States.
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. bisacsh
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. bisacsh
• TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation. bisacsh
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• Get out of the Road! — The battle over the public roads in america, 1870-1900 — The right sort of people — The battle over taxes, sidepaths, and roads at the turn of the century — The rules of the road — Bicycling in the automotive age, 1900-1930 — Victory bike battles — The debate over emergency transport in World War II — 1950s syndrome — Excluding bikes from suburban streets, interstate highways, and adult lives — Bikes are beautiful — The bike boom, bikeways, and the battle over where to ride in the 1970s — Conclusion — The Road as a commons
• Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road.

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• Bicycles — United States — History.
• Bicycles — United States — Safety measures.
• Highway planning — United States.
• Transportation and state — United States — History.
• Cycling — United States — History.
• Cycling — United States — Safety measures.
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• Bicycles — Safety measures. fast (OCoLC)fst00831513
• Cycling. fast (OCoLC)fst00885857
• Cycling — Safety measures. fast (OCoLC)fst00885881
• Highway planning. fast (OCoLC)fst00956692
• Transportation and state. fast (OCoLC)fst01155244
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-178).
• Streets : Street design principles : Key principles Phases of transformation Street design in context Downtown 1-way street Downtown 2-way street Downtown thoroughfare Neighborhood main street Neighborhood street Yield street Boulevard Residential boulevard Transit corridor Green alley Commercial alley Residential shared street Commercial shared street : Cambridge shared streets — Street design elements : Lane width — Sidewalks : Sidewalk zones Sidewalk design — Curb extensions : Gateway Plnchpoint Chicane Bus bulbs — Vertical speed control elements : Speed hump Speed table Speed cushion — Transit streets : Dedicated curbside/offset bus lanes Dedicated median bus lanes Contra-flow bus lanes Bus stops — Stormwater management : Bloswales Flow-through planters Pervious strips Pervious pavement — Interim design strategies : Interim design strategies : Moving the curb From pilot to permanent — Parklets : San Francisco parklet program — Temporary Street Closures : Los Angeles’s ClcLAvia Initiative — Interim public plazas : New York City Plaza Program — Intersections : Intersection design principles : Principles Major intersections Intersections of major and minor streets Raised intersections Mini roundabout Complex intersections Complex intersection analysis Redesign — Intersection design elements : Crosswalks and crossings : Crosswalks Conventional crosswalks Midblock crosswalks Pedestrian safety islands — Corner radii — Visibility/sight distance — Traffic signals : Signalization principles Leading pedestrian interval Split-phasing Signal cycle lengths Fixed vs. actuated signalization Coordinated signal timing — Design controls : Design controls — Design speed : Speed reduction mechanisms — Design vehicle — Design hour — Design year — Performance measures — Functional classification : San Francisco’s Better Streets Plan.
• The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the birds eye view to granular details. Case studies from around the country clearly show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a citys unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: Streets are public spaces. Streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic. Great streets are great for business. Well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners. Design for safety. Traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, bicycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely. Streets can be changed. Transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street. Many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. Act now! Implement projects quickly using temporary materials to help inform public decision making. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.– Source other than Library of Congress.

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• City traffic — Planning.
• Streets — Planning.
• Traffic congestion.
• Traffic calming.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : the logic of the air — The Americanization of the airplane — Good neighbors are close neighbors — Global visions, national interests — America’s lifeline to Africa — From open door to open sky — Mass air travel and the routes of the Cold War — The jet age and the limits of American power — Conclusion : Empires rise and empires fall .

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• Aeronautics, Commercial — United States — History — 20th century.
• Aeronautics, Commercial — Political aspects — United States.
• Pan American World Airways, Inc. — History.
• Aeronautics, Commercial — Social aspects — United States.
• Aeronautics and state — United States — History — 20th century.
• United States — Foreign relations — 20th century.
• Globalization.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Genesis — A railroad life: H. K. Thomas — Annus horribilis : 1873 — A railroad life: William Hyde — Friends — A railroad life: Elias C. Bousinot — Spatial politics — A railroad life: Alfred A. Cohen — Kilkenny cats — Mise en scène: Labor in nature — Men in octopus suits — A railroad life: William Mahl — Working men — A railroad life: William Pinkerton — Looking backward — Mise en scène: The death of Johanna Grogan — Collapse — Mise en scène: Reading the newspapers — Strike — Mise en scène: Following the detectives — Creative destruction — Mise en scène: Wovoka — Epilogue — Conclusion — Appendix.
• A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.
• The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West. As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds of work and ways of life. Their discriminatory rates sparked broad opposition and a new antimonopoly politics. With characteristic originality, range, and authority, Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.–Publisher description.

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• Railroads — United States — History — 19th century.
• Land settlement — United States — History — 19th century.
• National characteristics, American.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-346) and index.
• Urban freeways and America’s changing cities — The 1930s — 1939-1945 — 1946-1956 — Changing visions and regulations for highway planning — Urban freeway stories : three cities among dozens — Conclusions and epilogue : urban highways and the American city.

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• Express highways — United States — History.
• Express highways — Government policy — United States — History.

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• In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally–five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West. Two titans of American railroads set their sights on it: James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern and largest individual shareholder of the Northern Pacific, and Edward Harriman, head of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. The subsequent contest was unprecedented in the history of American enterprise, pitting not only Hill against Harriman but also Big Oil against Big Steel and J. P. Morgan against the Rockefellers, with a supporting cast of enough wealthy investors to fill the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. The story, told here in full for the first time, transports us to the New York Stock Exchange during the unfolding of the earliest modern-day stock market panic. Harriman vs. Hill re-creates the drama of four tumultuous days in May 1901, when the common stock of the Northern Pacific rocketed from one hundred ten dollars a share to one thousand in a mere seventeen hours of trading–the result of an inadvertent corner caused by the opposing forces. Panic followed and then, in short order, a calamity for the shorts, a compromise, the near-collapse of Wall Street brokerages and banks, the most precipitous decline ever in American stock values, and the fastest recovery. Larry Haeg brings to life the ensuing stalemate and truce, which led to the forming of a holding company, briefly the biggest railroad combine in American history, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the deal, launching the reputation of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as the great dissenter and President Theodore Roosevelt as the trust buster. The forces of competition and combination, unfettered growth, government regulation, and corporate ambition–all the elements of American business at its best and worst–come into play
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Machine generated contents note: — Contents — Preface — Acknowledgments — Dramatis Personae, 1901 — Introduction: A Railroad World — 1. Mr. Morgan and Mr. Hill — 2. Mr. Harriman and Mr. Schiff — 3. The End of the Days of Small Things — 4. The Battle for the Burlington — 5. Peacemakers Arming for Combat — 6. The Weak Link in Your Chain — 7. The Consequences of a Hostile Act — 8. Decision at Temple Emanu-El — 9. Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here — 10. Northern Insecurities — 11. The Big Stick — 12. A Thunderbolt out of the Blue — 13. Great Cases and Bad Law — Epilogue: The Last Corner — Appendixes: — Associate Justice Holmes Dissent — 1901 Railroads — 1901 Wall Street Primer — Notes — Bibliography — Index.

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• Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909.
• Hill, James J. (James Jerome), 1838-1916.
• Railroads — United States — History — 20th century.
• Capitalists and financiers — United States — Biography.
• Stock exchanges — United States — History — 20th century.
• Speculation — United States — History — 20th century.

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• The romance of aviation, the perils of a business — No runways, no problem — Pulled into the modern age — Lithe man with a bright smile — Adventures in scale and efficiency — Planes longer than the flight at Kitty Hawk — One whammy after another — The decade that lasted a lifetime — Broke and vanishing fast — The history of Northwest Airlines.

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• Northwest Airlines Corporation — History.
• Aeronautics, Commercial — United States — History.

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