Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. A BRIEF PRIMER ON TRANSIT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 3
5. 1 ATLANTA The City Too Busy to Hate 7
6. 2 BOSTON Urban Institutions, Megaprojects, and City Revival 17
7. 3 CHICAGO The Loop Elevated, Beloved Steel Eyesore 29
8. 4 CINCINNATI A Short History of a Never-Used Subway 43
9. 5 CLEVELAND Transit and the Perils of Waterfront Redevelopment 49
10. 6 DALLAS They Don’t Build Them Like They Used To 59
11. 7 DETROIT The City-Suburban Rift and the Most Useless Transit System in the World 67
12. 8 HOUSTON The City of Organic Growth 79
13. 9 LOS ANGELES 72 Suburbs in Search of a City 87
14. 10 MIAMI Overpromise, Underdeliver 103
15. 11 MINNEAPOLIS–ST. PAUL The Mob Takeover of Twin City Rapid Transit 115
16. 12 MONTREAL The Metro as Showcase Megaproject 123
17. 13 NEW ORLEANS How a Big City Grew into a Small Town 133
18. 14 NEW YORK CITY The Tortured History of the Second Avenue Subway 143
19. 15 PHILADELPHIA How Not to Run a Railroad 157
20. 16 PITTSBURGH How to Make Buses Work 169
21. 17 RICHMOND The First Streetcar System 177
22. 18 ROCHESTER The Only City to Open a Subway, Then Close It 181
23. 19 SAN FRANCISCO The View from Geary Street 185
24. 20 SEATTLE Consensus through Exhaustion 199
25. 21 TORONTO Subway Line as Political Football 209
26. 22 VANCOUVER An Exceptional Elevated 221
27. 23 WASHINGTON, DC The Freeway Revolt and the Creation of Metro 231
28. CONCLUSION 241
29. Acknowledgments 243
30. Notes 245
31. Further Reading 264
32. Archives Used 266
33. Index 267