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Perspectives on regional transportation planning
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ISBN: 0669843431 9780669843439 Year: 1973 Publisher: Lexington, Mass. Lexington Books

Urban transport appraisal
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ISBN: 0333213793 0333177835 1349157317 9780333177839 Year: 1977 Publisher: London : Macmillan,


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Innovation in Public Transport Finance : Property Value Capture
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ISBN: 9781409462606 9781409462613 9781472407795 1409462617 1306818508 9781306818506 1409462609 1472407792 9781315588636 9781317116424 9781317116431 9781138250130 1317116445 1317116437 1315588633 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd,

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This book reviews four major Value Capture mechanisms all of which are used to fund transit in the US. Through the study of prominent examples of these VC mechanisms, it evaluates each mechanism's performance focusing on aspects such as equity, revenue-generating potential, the institutional capacity required to design and implement the mechanisms, stakeholder support for these mechanisms, and the legal and policy environment. Although the book focuses on the US, the use of the VC mechanisms and the urgent need for additional revenue to fund public transportation are world-wide concerns. There


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Routes of Power : Energy and Modern America
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ISBN: 0674419618 0674728890 9780674419612 9780674728899 9780674970922 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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The fossil fuel revolution is usually rendered as a tale of historic advances in energy production. In this perspective-changing account, Christopher F. Jones instead tells a story of advances in energy access--canals, pipelines, and wires that delivered power in unprecedented quantities to cities and factories at a great distance from production sites. He shows that in the American mid-Atlantic region between 1820 and 1930, the construction of elaborate transportation networks for coal, oil, and electricity unlocked remarkable urban and industrial growth along the eastern seaboard. But this new transportation infrastructure did not simply satisfy existing consumer demand--it also whetted an appetite for more abundant and cheaper energy, setting the nation on a path toward fossil fuel dependence. Between the War of 1812 and the Great Depression, low-cost energy supplied to cities through a burgeoning delivery system allowed factory workers to mass-produce goods on a scale previously unimagined. It also allowed people and products to be whisked up and down the East Coast at speeds unattainable in a country dependent on wood, water, and muscle. But an energy-intensive America did not benefit all its citizens equally. It provided cheap energy to some but not others; it channeled profits to financiers rather than laborers; and it concentrated environmental harms in rural areas rather than cities. Today, those who wish to pioneer a more sustainable and egalitarian energy order can learn valuable lessons from this history of the nation's first steps toward dependence on fossil fuels.

First have something to say : writing for the library profession
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ISBN: 0838999336 0838999328 0838997295 9780838908518 0838908519 9780838999325 0838908519 9780838997291 9780838910016 0838910017 9780838999332 0838993664 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association,

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