Name: Railtown: The Fight for the los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City (en Inglés)
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Author: Ethan N. Elkind
ISBN: 9780520278271

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portada Railtown: The Fight for the los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of California Pr

Autor

Ethan N. Elkind

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780520278271

N° edición

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Historia de américa
Historia local

Railtown: The Fight for the los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City (en Inglés)

Ethan N. Elkind (Autor) · Univ Of California Pr · Tapa Blanda

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The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.