The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
May 16, 2023
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The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
In The Great American Transit Disaster, urban and planning historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom offers a potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Countering the standard histories that critique American auto-centric culture and government policies, Bloom asserts our transit networks are bad for a simple reason: we wanted it this way. Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit
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