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  • Faster, Smarter, Greener

    The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility

    A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.The twentieth century was the century of the automobile; the twenty-first will see mobility dramatically re-envisioned. Automobiles altered cityscapes, boosted economies, and made personal mobility efficient and convenient for many. We had a ... Leer más

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  • To the Edge of the World

    The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad

    To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel -- full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian railroad, the vital artery for Russian expansion that spans almost 6,000 miles and seven time zones ... Leer más

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners

    Victorian to Present-Day Cases

    de Stephen Wade ...
    From Oscar Wilde to the Kray brothers—a unique history of the lives and crimes of the United Kingdom's most famous, and infamous, inmates.Their names can chill the blood of true-crime aficionados: Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper; child-torturer Ian Brady; cannibal Dennis Nilsen; serial killer Beverley Allitt. Some are tinged in glamour: beautiful nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, hanged for ... Leer más

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  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Leer más

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  • Railway Disasters

    de Simon Fowler ...
    Series series Images of Transport
    British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters.This book looks at some of the most famous as well as some that have been all but forgotten, matching graphic illustrations with eyewitness accounts of people who were there and the confidential reports of the ... Leer más

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  • Aston Martin

    Aston Martin is now more than a century old – and what a century it has been.Since its birth in London on the eve of the First World War, the company has experienced the highs of racing triumph – most famously in the 1959 Le Mans 24-hour race – and the lows of bankruptcy, yet throughout it all has been in the first rank of British marques.Published in association with the Aston Martin Heritage ... Leer más

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  • M25

    A Circular Tour of the London Orbital

    de Ray Hamilton ...
    Have you ever wanted to know…Which junction to take for Gibraltar?How to save £35,040 a year on Dartford Crossing tolls?How many assassins were buried within the concrete of the M25? (at least one)Why it’s important that North Ockendon declares itself independent from Greater London at the earliest opportunity?This indispensable biography of a road profiles the 117 miles of Britain’s most infamous ... Leer más

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  • Planning After Petroleum

    Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil

    Edición de Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe, Anitra Nelson ...
    Thepast decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the ... Leer más

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  • Whose Detroit?

    Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

    **"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."**â• Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves ... Leer más

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  • The Hixon Railway Disaster

    The Inside Story

    This is the shocking true story behind the botched introduction of Automatic Half-Barrier level-crossings into Britain.January 1968 saw the convening of the first Parliamentary Court of Inquiry into a railway accident in Britain since the Tay Bridge Disaster nearly a century before. Why was this? Because Britain's 'Railway Detectives', the Railway Inspectorate, who would normally investigate all ... Leer más

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  • The Design Charrette

    Ways to Envision Sustainable Futures

    Edición de Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about stakeholder involvement, this is often not directly related to design processes, which – most ... Leer más

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  • Improving Interchanges

    Toward Better Multimodal Railway Hubs in the People's Republic of China

    The interchange hub is the gateway to the city, and is a critical element in developing a sustainable and efficient public transport system. This publication presents ideas for improving interchanges by enhancing the quality of the journey experience for passengers. It draws upon international best practice and explains how ease and speed of mode transfers, coupled with the availability of ... Leer más

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