Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape [Audiobook] download free by John R. Stilgoe
- Listen audiobook: Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape
- Author: John R. Stilgoe
- Release date: 2009/4/30
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780813928319
- Rating: 8.33 of 10
- Votes: 545
- Review by: Brett Casey
- Review rating: 7.5 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/18
- Duration: 3H47M20S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, MP3, MPEG4 (compression RAR, ZIP, 7-ZIP, TGZ, Z)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M32S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Trains have a nostalgic connotation for most Americans, but John Stilgoe argues that we should be looking to rail lines as the path to our future, not just our past. ''Train Time'' picks up where his acclaimed work ''Metropolitan Corridor'' left off, carrying Stilgoe's ideas about the spatial consequences of railways up to the present moment. With containers bringing the production of a global economy to our ports, the price of oil skyrocketing, and congestion and sprawl forcing many Americans to live far from work, trains offer an obvious alternative to a culture dependent on cars and long-haul trucking. Arguing that the train is returning, 'an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States', Stilgoe posits a future for railways as powerful shapers of American life. For anyone looking for prescient analysis and compelling history of the American landscape and economy in general and railroad and transit history in particular, ''Train Time'' is an engaging look at the future of our railroads and of transportation and land development. For those familiar with John Stilgoe's talent for seeing things that elude the rest of us, and delivering those observations in pithy asides about real estate, corporate culture, and other aspects of American life, this book will not disappoint.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Conservation Of The Environment, Transport Planning & Policy, Railway Transport Industries, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Trains & Railways, Transport Industries
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 35.67 USD
- Dimensions: 139.7x218.44x20.32mm
- Weight: 376.48g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Charlottesville, United States
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