Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars - Hardcover

Schwartz, Samuel I

 
9781610395649: Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1610395646 ISBN 13: 9781610395649
Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

A leading transportation expert and former NY Traffic Commissioner explores how cars have shaped American cities, explains why more Americans are relying less on driving, and details exactly how our urban centres will need to adapt.

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Sam Schwartz, a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam," is one of the leading transportation experts in the United States today. He served as New York City's traffic commissioner and the New York City Department of Transportation's chief engineer. Schwartz currently runs Sam Schwartz Engineering and is a columnist at the New York Daily News. He has been profiled by the New Yorker, New York Times, and many other national publications. Schwartz lives in New York City and owns a Volvo that can drive without him.

William Rosen is a former editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and The Free Press. He has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, the American Interest, Lapham's Quarterly, the New Atlantic, the Washington Post Book World, Bloomberg, and Smithsonian's Echoes, and is the author of Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Viking), The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention (Random House) and The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century (Viking).

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Verlag
PublicAffairs
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1610395646
ISBN 13 
9781610395649
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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