The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970 Grandparenting Matters A story like no other

A story like no other

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ISBN13: 9781577996842

500 years from around 1400 BC through 90 AD

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The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970 Grandparenting Matters A story like no otherAutomobiles dominate transportation today in most American cities. After World War II, urban planners embraced highway transportation as the solution to urban congestion, while mass transit was shunned as outmoded and appropriate only for older, densely populated cities. Yet the prolonged energy crisis, beginning in 1973, shattered most previously held attitudes about the role of mass transit, and it was now promoted as central to energy efficiency