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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226829790
ISBN-139780226829791
eBay Product ID (ePID)26059231196
Product Key Features
Book TitleLost Subways of North America : a Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCartography, Civil / Transportation, Public Transportation
Publication Year2023
IllustratorBerman, Jake, Yes
GenreTransportation, Technology & Engineering
AuthorJake Berman
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight46.2 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-002893
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Reviews The Lost Subways of North America is all about the subways of our past, present and future. Not only will you find great stories about the subways of North America, it also features beautiful transit maps that Berman illustrated himself., Berman's many exceptional maps are provocations worth thousands of words each, conveying a history of relative transportation abundance in the U.S. There is no other book on public transportation like it., Effectively illustrated with past and current system maps, this collection offers fresh insights into how large cities can--or don't--work., If your daily life, too, is governed by the whims of your local subway, this book is for you. Cartographer Jake Berman uncovers the ghosts of bygone transit systems and incomplete transportation plans of 23 cities across North America. The maps appear alongside explanations of the systemic inequities that permanently altered the transportation systems we still use today. Also, you may finally get an answer as to why your subway is consistently 20 minutes late., In addition to commenting on contemporary situations, Berman's book is also a rewarding look into the history that informs our contemporary transit mess. For instance, he does an apt job of retelling the oft-told defeat of Los Angeles's streetcar system by freeway - including a strange moment in which an LA monorail almost took hold. This retelling makes for the perfect prologue to Berman's discussion of LA's decades-long pursuit of a viable light rail system, which continues to this day., A comprehensive and accessible history of a profoundly consequential and underexplored cultural event. It makes you wonder at what was lost., Cartographer Berman's comprehensive debut succinctly recounts the histories of 23 public mass transit systems built by American cities in the 20th century. . . . For each city, Berman provides his own exquisitely illustrated maps of past, existing, and proposed transit systems. The result is a valuable resource for transit enthusiasts., Jake exhibits scholarly thoroughness, while keeping his text readable, for lawyers and non-lawyers alike., Berman takes us on a whirlwind cartographic and textual tour of urban rail transit's lost lines and unbuilt extensions. Time and again, American voters and political leaders rejected or abandoned plans to create big, fast, bold transit systems that could compete with automobiles. While we can't go back and change history, Berman provides a clear vision of just how much was lost., Using meticulous archival research, the cartographer and artist has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering 23 North American metropolises., Rarely do fun and lamentation share pages so intimately as they do in The Lost Subways of North America . Jake Berman -- who is an unlikely combination of writer, lawyer, and cartographer -- tells the history of rail transit in 23 North American cities through a delightful combination of graphics and text. He recreates archival maps with modern graphic design techniques to illustrate how cities' transit systems evolved and, most poignantly, how they stopped short or regressed., Berman's comprehensive research and accessible writing style make for easy reading, and his complementary text greatly assists the reader in comprehending each locale's unique situation. It is as much a critique of the rise and fall of industrial cities as it is a history of failed transit schemes, for which it should become recommended reading for anyone interested in the effects of unbridled capitalism, corrupt politics, and big egos on North American daily life., Berman's lively history of American subway debates takes us beyond the usual nostalgia of so much writing on the topic. It helps us to see how our ancestors' values and motivations created the infrastructure we have and gives us the courage to make better choices now.
Dewey Decimal388.40973
Table Of ContentIntroduction A Brief Primer on Transit and Urban Development 1 Atlanta: The City Too Busy to Hate 2 Boston: Urban Institutions, Megaprojects, and City Revival 3 Chicago: The Loop Elevated, Beloved Steel Eyesore 4 Cincinnati: A Short History of a Never-Used Subway 5 Cleveland: Transit and the Perils of Waterfront Redevelopment 6 Dallas: They Don''t Build Them Like They Used To 7 Detroit: The City-Suburban Rift and the Most Useless Transit System in the World 8 Houston: The City of Organic Growth 9 Los Angeles: 72 Suburbs in Search of a City 10 Miami: Overpromise, Underdeliver 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul: The Mob Takeover of Twin Cities Rapid Transit 12 Montreal: The Metro as Showcase Megaproject 13 New Orleans: How a Big City Grew into a Small Town 14 New York City: The Tortured History of the Second Avenue Subway 15 Philadelphia: How Not to Run a Railroad 16 Pittsburgh: How to Make Buses Work 17 Richmond: The First Streetcar System 18 Rochester: The Only City to Open a Subway, Then Close It 19 San Francisco: The View from Geary Street 20 Seattle: Consensus through Exhaustion 21 Toronto: Subway Line as Political Football 22 Vancouver: An Exceptional Elevated 23 Washington, DC: The Freeway Revolt and the Creation of Metro Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Further Reading List of Archives Used Index
SynopsisA visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities. Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience--being stuck in traffic. But things weren't always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate? The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider this eternal question, with a strikingly visual--and fun--journey through past, present, and unbuilt urban transit. Using meticulous archival research, cartographer and artist Jake Berman has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering twenty-three North American metropolises, ranging from New York City's Civil War-era plan for a steam-powered subway under Fifth Avenue to the ultramodern automated Vancouver SkyTrain and the thousand-mile electric railway system of pre-World War II Los Angeles. He takes us through colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit, and modern rail systems--drawing us into the captivating transit histories of US and Canadian cities. Berman combines vintage styling with modern printing technology to create a sweeping visual history of North American public transit and urban development. With more than one hundred original maps, accompanied by essays on each city's urban development, this book presents a fascinating look at North American rapid transit systems.
LC Classification NumberHE308.B33 2023
