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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| 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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