Suburbanizing the Masses. Public transport and urban development in historical perspective
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- Author(s) Divall, Colin, & Winstan Bond (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2003
- Pages 319pp; illus
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Aldershot
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Thirteen collected essays dealing with the relationship of public transport and urban development, drawing on the experiences of different countries and cities and towns within them. Structured in three parts: Part 1] 'Transport and (sub)urban growth'; Part 2] 'Professional paradigms of urban transport and traffic'; Part 3] 'Public transport and urban identities'. Includes: Tony Carr, 'Changing patterns of travel. Transport and land ownership in a Victorian new town - Middlesbrough to 1939' [pp149-70]; Lesley Whitworth, 'Accounting for customers? A tale of public transport in Coventry' [pp211-30]; Ralph Harrington, 'Civic pride. Urban identity and public transport in Britain, 1880-1980' [pp251-67]