Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology

by Robert C. Post

Book Overview

This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around. Just a few hundred years ago, the size of cities was limited by the time it took people to move from one part of the city to another. The development of successive technologies has forever altered the urban landscape. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to current light-rail, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313339163
• ISBN13: 9780313339165
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"