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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Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway
$27.95 Add to cartThe New York City subway system is one of the largest and oldest in the world, still carrying traces of the transport systems that came before it. Some of its elevated tracks are remnants of steam rai
- Author: Naiden, Fred S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844093
- Language: English
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How to Ride the Subway: Getting Around on Wall Street and in Life
$30.00 Add to cartHow to Ride the Subway details lessons learned on investing and relationship-building from acclaimed CNBC contributor Jimmy Lebenthal.
Jimmy Lebenthal grew up in New York City in the ’70s and ’80s, a- Author: Lebenthal, Jimmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798895651988
- Language: English
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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
$19.95 Add to cartHow to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all
Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anyw- Author: Marx, Paris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1839765895
- Language: English
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The Great Train Heist: The California Smart Taxpayer Rip-Off
$32.99 Add to cartCalifornia’s Billion-Dollar SMART Train: America’s Most Expensive Transit Failure
The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) train stands as one of the most catastrophic government transportation inve- Author: Coffino, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1510786295
- Language: English
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Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It
$18.00 Add to cartA high-octane polemic against cars–which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealthy–from a talented young writer at the Economist.
“Briskly written, well researched, and with a kn- Author: Knowles, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1419775073
- 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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Seattle’s Streetcar Era: An Illustrated History, 1884-1941
$40.00 Read moreSeattle’s population was growing rapidly during the 1880s, but steep hills and shorelines impeded residential development, pushing expansion northward and creating a long, narrow corridor ideal for a
- Author: Bergman, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224071
- 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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Iconic Transit Maps: The World’s Best Designs
$40.00 Read moreThis visually stunning collection of iconic and historic subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from fifty of the world’s most exciting cities is a map- and transit-lover’s dream.
Transport maps are s- Author: Ovenden, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 3791380257
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Lost Ls
$23.99 Read moreChicago’s system of elevated railways, known locally as the L, has run continuously since 1892 and, like the city, has never stood still. It helped neighborhoods grow, brought their increasingly diver… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Sadowski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 146710602X
- Language: English
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City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide
$24.99 Add to cartExploring Pittsburghs Ups and Downs
In Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest cities in the … [more below]- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Zurowski, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156728
- Language: English
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Soviet Metro Stations
$34.95 Read moreFrom the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro
“For us,” said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, “there was something supernatural about the Metro.” Visi
- Author: Sorrell, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0995745560
- 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
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- 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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Engineering Pittsburgh: A History of Roads, Rails, Canals, Bridges and More
$32.99 Add to cartWestern Pennsylvania’s infrastructure is renowned for traversing valleys, mountains, rivers and everything in between. Early surveying in the region delineated state and local boundaries that allowed … [more below]
- Author: Asce Pittsburgh Section 100th Anniversar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1540235998
- 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
