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Download or read book Metropolitan Corridor written by John R. Stilgoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930's.

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