Download or read book Trains Buses People written by Christof Spieler and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the best transit cities in the US? The best Bus Rapid Transit lines? The most useless rail transit lines? The missed opportunities? In the US, the 25 largest metropolitan areas and many smaller cities have fixed guideway transit—rail or bus rapid transit. Nearly all of them are talking about expanding. Yet discussions about transit are still remarkably unsophisticated. To build good transit, the discussion needs to focus on what matters—quality of service (not the technology that delivers it), all kinds of transit riders, the role of buildings, streets and sidewalks, and, above all, getting transit in the right places. Christof Spieler has spent over a decade advocating for transit as a writer, community leader, urban planner, transit board member, and enthusiast. He strongly believes that just about anyone—regardless of training or experience—can identify what makes good transit with the right information. In the fun and accessible Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit, Spieler shows how cities can build successful transit. He profiles the 47 metropolitan areas in the US that have rail transit or BRT, using data, photos, and maps for easy comparison. The best and worst systems are ranked and Spieler offers analysis of how geography, politics, and history complicate transit planning. He shows how the unique circumstances of every city have resulted in very different transit systems. Using appealing visuals, Trains, Buses, People is intended for non-experts—it will help any citizen, professional, or policymaker with a vested interest evaluate a transit proposal and understand what makes transit effective. While the book is built on data, it has a strong point of view. Spieler takes an honest look at what makes good and bad transit and is not afraid to look at what went wrong. He explains broad concepts, but recognizes all of the technical, geographical, and political difficulties of building transit in the real world. In the end,Trains, Buses, People shows that it is possible with the right tools to build good transit.

Download or read book Pennsylvania Recreation Atlas written by National Geographic Maps and published by State Recreation Atlas. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Geographic's Pennsylvania Recreation Atlas is the ideal resource for any recreation activity from hunting and fishing to camping, golfing, hiking, and more. This durable, easy-to-use atlas includes up-to-date topographic maps, a comprehensive road network, informative recreation guides, and a detailed index. All road types are clearly identified, making each atlas a useful planning tool for motorcycle and off-road adventures. Maps include bold boundaries for parks and federal lands, and clearly labeled lakes, rivers, and streams. On each map page you will find a convenient map legend, easy-to-read page numbers, a latitude and longitude grid for use with GPS, and fact-checked points-of-interest. Also included are cross-referenced charts of fishing areas with species information, game management units, campgrounds and attractions charts, state park maps and facilities, hiking, golfing, skiing and paddling destinations, climate information, and more. * Detailed topographic maps with shaded relief for the entire state. Map scale is 1:150,000 * Each labeled feature is up-to-date and verified by satellite image * Comprehensive, easy-to-read road network * Boundaries for parks and federal lands * Clearly-labeled lakes, rivers and streams * Durable laminated cover * Size 11"x15" * Robust travel and recreation information - Cross-referenced chart of fishing areas with species information - Game management units - Campgrounds and attraction charts - State Parks maps and facilities - Hiking, golfing, skiing and paddling destinations - Climate information Map Scale = 1:150,000 Folded Size = 10.75" x 15.5"

Download or read book The Red Atlas written by John Davies and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and London to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. The information on these maps ranged from the locations of factories and ports to building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by Soviet spies on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.

Download or read book Map Link Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Metro Washington DC written by ADC (Firm) and published by ADC The Map People. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handy pocket sized atlas with street level detail, showing ZIP Codes, block numbers, schools, hospitals, points of interest, shopping centers, airports, parks and more. Fully indexed. Includes Falls Church, Silver Spring and the city of Alexandria.

Download or read book Urban Atlas Tract Data for Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book National Geographic Walking Washington D C 2nd Edition written by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. and published by National Geographic Walking Guide. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the best of Washington, D.C. with this handy guide, through 13 itineraries with step-by-step maps to help you explore its lively, eclectic neighborhoods. In a practical pocket format, the guide was written by an expert travel writer and enriched by the best images. The simple fact that Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States makes it a powerful and attractive destination. Added to this is the opportunity to see dozens of commemorative monuments and museums, most of which can be visited for free. Washington, D.C., has a variety of historic neighborhoods, and a culinary scene that is gaining international acclaim.

Download or read book Heroic written by Mark Pasnik and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world’s most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete’s structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city’s widespread revitalization often referred to as the “New Boston.” Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period—from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty’s concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)—with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies—both troubled and inspired.

Download or read book Metro Boston Eastern Massachusetts Street Atlas written by Arrow Maps and published by Arrow Map. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metro Boston/ Eastern Massachusetts Street Atlas boasts individual maps for over 160 communities. This atlas contains: A large-scale map of Central Boston, an Eastern Massachusetts road map, several public transportation maps. Each map contains an index, and indicates shopping centers, community statistics and places of interest. This atlas contains a comprehensive localities index, and offers more coverage than any other atlas in this area.

Download or read book Atlas of Cities written by Paul Knox and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of cities More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of cities that looks at different aspects of their physical, economic, social, and political structures; their interactions with each other and with their hinterlands; the challenges and opportunities they present; and where cities might be going in the future. Each chapter explores a particular type of city—from the foundational cities of Greece and Rome and the networked cities of the Hanseatic League, through the nineteenth-century modernization of Paris and the industrialization of Manchester, to the green and "smart" cities of today. Expert contributors explore how the development of these cities reflects one or more of the common themes of urban development: the mobilizing function (transport, communication, and infrastructure); the generative function (innovation and technology); the decision-making capacity (governance, economics, and institutions); and the transformative capacity (society, lifestyle, and culture). Using stunning info-graphics, maps, charts, tables, and photographs, the Atlas of Cities is a comprehensive overview of the patterns of production, consumption, generation, and decay of the twenty-first century’s defining form. Presents a one-of-a-kind taxonomy of cities that looks at their origins, development, and future prospects Features core case studies of particular types of cities, from the foundational cities of Greece and Rome to the "smart" cities of today Explores common themes of urban development, from transport and communication to lifestyle and culture Includes stunning info-graphics, maps, charts, tables, and photos Cities Featured: Abuja, Alexandria, Amsterdam, Athens, Augsburg, Babylon, Beijing, Berlin, Brasilia, Bruges, Budapest, Cairo, Canberra, Chandigarh, Chicago, Constantinople, Curitiba, Detroit, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Florence, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Geneva, Ghent, Glasgow, Güssing, Hong Kong, Innsbruck, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Knossos, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Lübeck, Manchester, Marseille, Masdar City, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Mumba, Mumbai, Nairobi, New York, Paris, Pella, Portland, Rome, San Francisco, Santorini, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sheffield, Singapore, Sparta, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Sydney, Syracuse, Tokyo, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna, Washington, D.C., Wildpoldsried

Download or read book Data User News written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases written by Gale Group and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Unofficial Guide to Washington D C written by Eve Zibart and published by The Unofficial Guides. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C. digs deeper and offers more than any other guide. The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C. is the insider's guide to Washington at its best with more than 75 restaurants reviewed and hotels reviewed and ranked for value and quality-plus secrets for getting the lowest rates. With advice that is direct, prescriptive, and detailed, it takes the guesswork out of travel by unambiguously rating and ranking everything from hotels, restaurants, and attractions to rental car companies. With an Unofficial Guide, you know what’s available in every category, from the best to the worst and step-by-step detailed plans allow the reader to make the most of their time in Washington, D.C.

Download or read book The Atlas of American Society written by Alice C. Andrews and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of utility to demographers, public policy analysts, sociologists, political scientists, policymakers, and, of course, geographers, The Atlas of American Society maps out a comprehensive picture of an America rarely seen in such breadth.

Download or read book Maryland written by James E. DiLisio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although one of the smallest of the fifty states, in many ways Maryland is the United States in miniature, bringing together and exemplifying the diverse elements of the country. In it the North and the South meet, and Maryland is one of the original gateways to the West. Maryland is a study in contrasts, combining the poverty of the Appalachian hill people, the sharecroppers of the South, and the inner-city dwellers of Baltimore with the affluence of country manor estates and fashionable suburbs. Some of America's most rural scenes are interspersed there with some of its largest metropolitan centers. Added to this is a great physical diversity—the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, the Delmarva Peninsula, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Highlands. This book provides an analytical survey of the physical, social, cultural, and economic geography of Maryland. Though the emphasis is on human geography, significant attention is given to the physical base on which the cultural landscape has developed. Environmental issues, such as Chesapeake Bay pollution, coal mining in Western Maryland, and the urbanization of the beaches, are addressed to show how development has often led to conflicts between people and their environments.

Download or read book Business Travel Atlas written by American Map Corporation and published by Langenscheidt Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States, Canada, Mexico. All new digitized maps. Detailed city _vicinity maps. Detailed downtown city street maps. Same page state map indexing. Special business reference section including: USA statistics; time zone; zip code and area code maps; U.S. and international area code listings. Mileage and driving time charts.