Public Transportation
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Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
$35.00 Add to cartTransportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In Human Transit, Revised Edition, he provides the basi… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Jarrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833053
- Language: English
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New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving Policy Outcomes in the Public Sector
$34.99 Add to cartReady to transform government from the inside out? It’s easy to complain about government bureaucracy and transportation in large American cities, but what if you could actually improve them instead?
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- Author: Schank, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1637429444
- Language: English
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New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit
$35.00 Add to cartIn the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect … [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833657
- Language: English
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How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road
$14.95 Add to cartRailway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all.
The world’s railways were almost entirely created by capital a- Author: Dennis, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1915672481
- Language: English
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Transit Tourism: The Iconic Art and Design of 22 Subway Systems Around the World
$34.99 Add to cartIn Transit Tourism: The Iconic Art and Design of 22 Subway Systems around the World, readers embark on a visual journey through the world’s bustling subway systems, where each station tells a story of… [more below]
- Author: Seltzer, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 28 2025
- ISBN10: 764369032
- Language: English
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Berlin U-Bahn Architecture & Design Map: Berliner U-Bahn Architekturkarte
$13.00 Read moreThis two-sided, bilingual map is a guide to Berlin’s most distinctive U-Bahn stations. The map is an invitation to explore Berlin’s extraordinary history from 1902 through today, as reflected in the r… [more below]
- Series: Blue Crow Media Architecture of Public Transit Maps #5
- Author: Pfeiffer-Kloss, Verena
- Binding:
- Page Count: 2
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1912018969
- Language: English
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The Loop: The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago
$26.95 Read moreThe structure that anchors Chicago
Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about th- Author: Reardon, Patrick T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0809338106
- Language: English
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Traveler’s Guide to Personal Security
$10.95 Add to cartGone are the days when the most a traveler had to worry about was communicating with the cab driver or knowing when and whom to tip. Globalization of crime and proliferation of terrorism has raised ou
- Author: Rosenberg, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: October 29 2021
- ISBN10: 173653730X
- Language: English
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A Fleet History of the San Francisco Municipal Railway
$40.00 Add to cartA Fleet History of the San Francisco Municipal Railway is a book that lists every transit vehicle that has been used in regular Muni service since 1912. The format includes a listing of key data for e
- Author: Bignardi, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1733576703
- Language: English
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Back on Track: Sound Transit’s Fight to Save Light Rail
$22.95 Read moreObserving its busy stations today, it is difficult to picture Seattle and Puget Sound without Sound Transit. Or to imagine how close the transportation agency came to folding. Back on Track reveals it
- Author: Wodnik, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0874223695
- Language: English
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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
$28.00 Add to cartIn the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire
- Author: Most, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250061350
- Language: English
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Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
$30.00 Add to cartIn the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operation… [more below]
- Author: Healy, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143707
- Language: English
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Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System
$30.00 Add to cartThis dynamic visual history of the world’s largest transit system — in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory — is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.
Wh… [more below]- Author: Morris, John E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0762467908
- Language: English
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The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
$35.00 Add to cartA 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. Bu- Author: Berman, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829790
- Language: English
