Urban Mass Transit – The Life Story of a Technology

The history of mass transit vividly illustrates the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities. Urban mass transit as a technology – rather, as a technological system – that provided an essential complement to industrialization, urbanization, and, ultimately, to the rise of consumer culture. It begins as a narrative with the omnibus and horsecar in the 1830s and takes it to the renaissance of urban mass transit at the turn of the 21st century. Urban Mass Transit focuses on innovations in the United States as well as worldwide developments. Softcover.