Straphanger: saving our cities and ourselves from the automobile [First edition]
9780805095586, 9780805091731, 0805095586, 0805091734
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car c
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Year 2012
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Table of contents :
Shanghai, China --
Confessions of a straphanger --
The subway that time forgot : New York, New York --
Only connect : Los Angeles, California --
The highway to hell : Phoenix, Arizona --
The salvation of Paris : Paris, France --
The Copenhagen Syndrome : Copenhagen, Denmark --
Fools and roads : Moscow, Russia --
City of trains : Tokyo, Japan --
The revenge of the loser cruiser : Bogotá, Colombia --
Good bones : Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia --
The next great city : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania --
Montreal, Quebec.