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Transport of delight : the mythical conception of rail transit in Los Angeles
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Transport of delight : the mythical conception of rail transit in Los Angeles

Author: Jonathan Richmond
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, ©2005.
Series: Technology and the environment (Akron, Ohio)
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English : 1st ed
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jonathan Richmond
ISBN: 1884836941 9781884836947 188483695X 9781884836954
OCLC Number: 54929472
Description: xix, 498 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: The rise and fall of the Pacific Electric: a case study in technological evolution and displacement -- Evaluating the promise and performance of rail -- Inventing demand for the Long Beach Line -- Questions of responsibility in forecasting -- The political and institutional makings of the Los Angeles County Light Rail Program -- A theory of myth -- The reality of imagery -- Integrating metaphors -- Technological sex symbols on steel rails -- Light rail and the symbolic promise of community renewal in Watts and Compton -- Synthesizing the political and the mythical -- Concluding implications-on the need to burst bubbles.
Series Title: Technology and the environment (Akron, Ohio)
Responsibility: Jonathan Richmond.
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