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New in paperback. Hardcover is out of print. Examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation.
Full Description
Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The book's historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of U.S. motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles. No other book offers as comprehensive a history of mass transit, mass motorization, highway development, and suburbanization or provides as penetrating an analysis of the historical differences between motorization in the United States and that of other advanced industrial nations.
Contents
Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part 1. U.S. Motorization in International Context
1. Motorization in the United States and Other Industrial Nations
Part 2. U.S. Motorization in Historical Context
2. Transit's American History, 1880-1929
3. The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Pivotal Epoch in U.S. Transportation History
4. World War II and Its Immediate Aftermath: The End of the Streetcar Era and the Beginnings of the Freeway Era
5. The Interstate and Pervasive Motorization, 1956-80
6. Transit's Conversion to Public Ownership
7. U.S. Motorization since the OPEC Embargo
8. The Competitive Difficulties of the U.S. Automakers
Part 3. Evolving Challenges in an Evolved Environment
9. The Changing Valance of U.S. Motorization
10. The Road to Sustainable Motorization
11. Motorization and Sustainability: History and Prospect
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
