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Boston in Transit

Author : Steven Beaucher
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262048078
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Boston in Transit written by Steven Beaucher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America’s most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA. A lively tour of public transportation in Boston over the years, Boston in Transit maps the complete history of the modes of transportation that have kept the city moving and expanding since its founding in 1630—from the simple ferry serving an English settlement to the expansive network of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA. The story of public transit in Boston—once dubbed the Hub of the Universe—is a journey through the history of the American metropolis. With a remarkable collection of maps and architectural and engineering drawings at hand, Steven Beaucher launches his account from the landing where English colonists established that first ferry, carrying passengers between what is now Boston’s North End and Charlestown—and sparing them what had been a two-day walk around Boston Harbor. In the 1700s, horse-drawn coaches appeared on the scene, connecting Boston and Cambridge, with the bigger, better Omnibus soon to follow. From horse-drawn coaches, horse-drawn railways evolved, making way for the electric streetcar networks that allowed the city’s early suburbs to sprout—culminating in the multimodal, regional public transportation network in place in Boston today. With photographs, brochures, pamphlets, guidebooks, timetables, and tickets, Boston in Transit creates a complete picture of the everyday experience of public transportation through the centuries. At once a practical reference, local history, and travelogue, this book will be cherished by armchair tourists, day-trippers, and serious travelers alike.

A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Publisher : New York, Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 written by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and published by New York, Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860

Author : Balthasar Henry Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860 written by Balthasar Henry Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles

Author : Charles P. Hobbs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852002
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles written by Charles P. Hobbs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.

Transport and Its Place in History

Author : David Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351186612
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Transport and Its Place in History written by David Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport and mobility history is one of the most exciting areas of historical research at the present. As its scope expands, it entices scholars working in fields as diverse as historical geography, management studies, sociology, industrial archaeology, cultural and literary studies, ethnography, and anthropology, as well as those working in various strands of historical research. Containing contributions exploring transport and mobility history after 1800, this volume of eclectic chapters shows how new subjects are explored, new sources are being encountered, considered and used, and how increasingly diverse and innovative methodological lenses are applied to both new and well-travelled subjects. From canals to Concorde, from freight to passengers, from screen to literature, the contents of this book will therefore not only demonstrate the cutting edge of research, and deliver valuable new insights into the role and position of transport and mobility in history, but it will also evidence the many and varied directions and possibilities that exist for the field’s future development.

Matatu

Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647139X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Matatu written by Kenda Mutongi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion, popular culture, and many others at once embodying both Kenya's staggering social problems and the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu as a powerful expression of the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.

The History of Transportation

Author : Northwood Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Transportation written by Northwood Institute and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Organization of Transport

Author : Massimo Moraglio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317800664
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Organization of Transport written by Massimo Moraglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns. These investigations criticize the concept of mobility itself, suggesting the need to merge transport and communication research, and to approach the topic with novel instruments and new methodologies. Following the debates on the role of users in shaping transport technology, new mobility research includes debates from sociology, planning, economy, geography, history, and anthropology. This edited volume examines how users, policy-makers, and industrial managers have organized and continue to organize mobility, with a particularly attention to Europe, North America, and Asia. Taking a long-term and comparative perspective, the volume brings together thirteen chapters from the fields of urban studies, history, cultural studies, and geography. Covering a variety of countries and regions, these chapters investigate how various actors have shaped transport systems, creating models of mobility that differ along a number of dimensions, including public vs. private ownership and operation as well as individual vs. collective forms of transportation. The contributions also examine the extent to which initial models have created path dependencies in terms of technology, physical infrastructure, urban development, and cultural and behavioral preferences that limit subsequent choices.

A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Publisher : New York, Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 written by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and published by New York, Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transportation Then and Now

Author : Robin Nelson
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
ISBN 13 : 154154076X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Transportation Then and Now written by Robin Nelson and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brief look at how transportation has changed over the years.

Machines in Motion

Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury UK
ISBN 13 : 9781547603381
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Machines in Motion written by Tom Jackson and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, all over the world, people travel: short trips or great, long voyages, moving slowly and steadily or racing along at super-fast speeds. They make their trips in cars, trains, planes, ships and on bikes-and some people have even blasted off in rockets! But how did these vehicles become what we know now? With intricately illustrated timelines, this book takes readers on a journey through the developmental history of various modes of transportation - from chariots to electric cars, dugout canoes to ocean liners, cable cars to bullet trains, and the many iterations in between. The fascinating stories behind each of these machines join together to reveal a comprehensive history of how new and inventive forms of transportation have built off one another to change our world.

The History of Transportation

Author : Brain Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The History of Transportation written by Brain Williams and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Delivering Victory

Author : Richard E. Killblane
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787546039
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Delivering Victory written by Richard E. Killblane and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book US Army Transportation Corps Historian, Richard E. Killblane, utitlizes the expertise of professionals with lived experience of synchronizing military transportation from end to end to uniquely explore how military transportation logistics have evolved during the last half of the 20th Century and beyond towards greater efficiency.

History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860

Author : Caroline Elizabeth MacGill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860 written by Caroline Elizabeth MacGill and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Technology, Transport, and Travel in American History

Author : Robert C. Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology, Transport, and Travel in American History written by Robert C. Post and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert C. Post explores the political, social, and economic implications behind technological developments throughout American history.

Transportation

Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1432938126
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Transportation written by Elizabeth Raum and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the development of transportation through the centuries, from ancient times to today.

Catalina by Sea

Author : Jeannine L. Pedersen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738531168
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Catalina by Sea by : Jeannine L. Pedersen

Download or read book Catalina by Sea written by Jeannine L. Pedersen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fancy flight of lyrics specifies that Santa Catalina Island is "26 miles across the sea." But mapmakers put the distance at 19.7 miles from the closest island point, Doctor's Cove (near Arrow Point), to the closest mainland locale, Point Fermin at San Pedro. Today boats and helicopters operating out of the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Newport Beach, and Dana Point transport musing songwriters and everyone else to Catalina for the song's much-promised "romance, romance, romance, romance," as well as fishing, sightseeing, and gainful employment. But the history of getting to and from the island's ports of Avalon and Two Harbors has been an epic across centuries of business and pleasure, involving a collective flotilla of side-wheelers, yachts, lumber schooners, steamships, water taxis, converted military vessels, crew boats, and today's fast and convenient jet boats.