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21. Airports in Dallas, Texas | |
Paperback: 34
Pages
(2010-07)
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22. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape by Owen D. Gutfreund | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2005-10-06)
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Wonderful book
A Book About USA's Sins |
23. The Great Luxury Liners, 1927-1954: A Photographic Record (Dover Photography Collections) by William H.Jr. Miller | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(1981-06-01)
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Great and Comprehensive Book
A superbly illustrated reference work |
24. Wooden Ship by Jan Adkins | |
Hardcover: 48
Pages
(2004-11)
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"Wooden Ship" a modeler's review |
25. Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America by Michael Brian Schiffer | |
Hardcover: 225
Pages
(1994-08-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description Amazingly, in 1900 28 percent of all cars were electric. By 1920 theelectric car had all but vanished and gas-powered cars dominated themarket. In Taking Charge, Schiffer deftly explores how culturalfactors, not technological ones, explain the rise of gas-guzzlingcars. For this edition, Schiffer brings the history of the electriccar into the present, arguing that despite the Detroit Big Three’sreluctance to make electric cars, their time has finally arrived. Customer Reviews (4)
60 electric cabs once ran in New York city, read how they did it!
Light and interesting
Great early history of the electric car
Mobile America, history of electric cars & the choices we ma |
26. The Encyclopedia of Classic Cars: A Celebration of the Motorcar from 1945 to 1975 by Martin Buckley | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(1997-07)
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A Good Overview of the Classics |
27. The Trackless Trolleys of Rhode Island by Richard L. Wonson | |
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(1983-01-01)
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28. City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 by Richard Longstreth | |
Paperback: 536
Pages
(1998-06-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description "[A]n engaging look at the neglected history of retail architecture andits relationship to the automobile." -- Mary Marien, ChristianScience Monitor From the 1920s to the 1950s, Los Angeles did for the shopping centerwhat New York and Chicago had done for the skyscraper. In a singlegeneration, the American retail center shifted from the downtown core tothe regional shopping center. Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is asweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regionalshopping center. Richard Longstreth takes a historical perspective,relating retail development to broader architectural, urban, andcultural issues. His story is far from linear; the topics he coversinclude the emergence of Hollywood as a downtown in miniature,experiments with the shopping center as an amenity of plannedresidential developments, the branch department store as a landmark ofdecentralization, the evolution of off-street parking facilities, andthe obscure origins of the pedestrian mall as a spine for retailcomplexes. Longstreth takes seriously the task of looking at retail buildings--oneof the most neglected yet common building types--and the economics ofreal estate in the American city. He shows that Los Angeles in theperiod covered was a harbinger of American metropolitan trends duringthe second half of this century. Over 250 illustrations, culled from awide variety of sources, constitute one of the best collections of oldLA photographs published anywhere. Customer Reviews (2)
Very Informative Book about Los Angeles
Well researched documentation of retailing change in L.A This has causedthe value of retail space to decline in many area of America. ... Read more |
29. Railroad Ferries of the Hudson and Stories of a Deck Hand by Raymond Baxter, Arthur Adams | |
Paperback: 276
Pages
(1999-01-01)
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commuting on the railroad ferries
that was the way to go
that was the way to go |
30. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose | |
Hardcover: 432
Pages
(2000-08-29)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished, but Abraham Lincoln, who was an early and constant champion of railroads, would not live to see the great achievement. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes to life. The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomo-tives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. This was the last great building project to be done mostly by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels through mountains. At its peak, the workforce -- primarily Chinese on the Central Pacific, Irish on the Union Pacific -- approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as fifteen thousand workers on each line. The Union Pacific was led by Thomas "Doc" Durant, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Ames, with Grenville Dodge -- America's greatest railroad builder -- as chief engineer. The Central Pacific was led by California's "Big Four": Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, were latter-day Lewis and Clark types who led the way through the wilderness, living off buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope. In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in atPromontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined. Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation. Building a transcontinental railroad, writes the prolific historian StephenAmbrose, was second only to the abolition of slavery on Lincoln'spresidential agenda. Through an ambitious program of land grants andlow-interest government loans, he encouraged entrepreneurs such asCalifornia's "Big Four"--Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, MarkHopkins, and Leland Stanford--to take on the task of stringing steelrails from ocean to ocean.The real work of doing so, of course, wason the shoulders of immigrant men and women, mostly Chinese andIrish. These often-overlooked actors and what a contemporary calledtheir "dreadful vitality" figure prominently in Ambrose's narrative,alongside the great financiers and surveyors who populate the standardtextbooks. In the end, Ambrose writes, Lincoln's dream transformed the nation,marking "the first great triumph over time and space" and inauguratingwhat has come to be known as the American Century. DavidHaward Bain's Empire Express, whichcovers the same ground, is more substantial, but Ambrose provides aneminently readable study of a complex episode in Americanhistory. --Gregory McNamee Customer Reviews (230)
This book gets stuck on the tracks
Nothing like it in the world
Train Book
Great review of history
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31. Politics and Planning in the Holy City by Gedalia Auerbach, Ira Sharkansky | |
Hardcover: 138
Pages
(2007-05-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description Jerusalem is also a place where more than 700,000 people live, and the center of a metropolitan area with more than twice that number. Along with religious and national interests, there are the customary conflicts between what various groups--property developers, politicians, professional planners, neighborhood residents, and environmental activists--want to do with the land. Politics and Planning in the Holy City describes and analyzes the tensions between politics and planning. The authors tackle the economic, social, and political contexts that shape conflicts. Such problems include deciding what should be called "Jerusalem" and difficulties surrounding the construction of a defense barrier to protect Israelis from Palestinian terrorists--in the framework of a multicultural city where 30 to 40 percent of its residents are Palestinians. There is dissent over locating rail lines to the city, as some interests want them here, there, or nowhere, and over building a light rail line within a city already crowded and beset with conflicting interests. The creation of a football stadium is another venue for conflict, as many religious Jews view sports as a threat to their way of life. Issues include locating a site for housing new immigrants, as few Jerusalemites want large numbers of newcomers in their neighborhoods, and deciding which sites merit preservation in a city with many deserving candidates, but severely limited resources. This volume will attract urban specialists as well as those concerned with larger political issues. Gedalia Auerbach has published several monographs, textbooks, and articles on politics and administration of local government, urban planning, and intergovernmental relations in Israel. Ira Sharkansky is professor emeritus of political science and public administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of several works, including The Political Economy of Israel and Governing Israel, both available from Transaction |
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