Urban transportation
Here are entered comprehensive works on the various modes of public and private transportation in urban areas in general or in various urban areas discussed collectively. Works limited to transportation in a specific city, city region, or metropolitan area are entered under Transportation with local subdivision. Works limited to the various modes of local public transportation are entered under Local transit.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Urban transportation -- Mathematical models
- Urban transportation -- Planning
- Urban transportation -- United States
- City traffic
- Personal rapid transit
- Street-railroads
- Subways
- Urban transportation policy
- City transportation
- Metropolitan transportation
- Municipal transportation
- Transportation, Urban
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Impact of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment- Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (in English, Chinese, and Spanish; c2013), by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, and Kanako Iuchi (PDF files with commentary at worldbank.org)
- Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibirum Analysis With Mathematical Programming Methods (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1985), by Yosef Sheffi (PDF with commentary at MIT)
- Urban Travel Demand: A Behavioral Analysis, by Thomas A. Domencich and Daniel L. McFadden (PDF files at Berkeley)
- Cities Safer by Design: Guidance and Examples to Promote Traffic Safety Through Urban and Street Design (version 1.0; Washington: World Resources Institute, 2015), by Ben Welle, Qingnan Liu, Wei Li, Robin King, Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Claudio Sarmiento, and Marta Obelheiro (PDF with commentary at wri.org)
- Trolley Through the Countryside (Denver: Sage Books, 1963), by Allison Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit (12 volumes; 1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Volume 1 (Summary): page images at HathiTrust
- Volume 2 (Atlanta Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 3 (Boston Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 4 (Chicago Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 5 (Denver Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 6 (Los Angeles Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 7 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 8 (San Francisco Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 9 (Seattle Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 10 (Washington, DC Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 11 (Technical Report): PDF files at Princeton
- Volume 12 (Bibliography): PDF files at Princeton
- The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), by Kristin V. Monroe
- Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Impact of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- National Car Builder (partial serial archives)
- Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Local- und Strassenbahn-Wesen (in German; full run was from 1882-1905; these volumes are US access only) (partial serial archives)
- Fires in Mass Transit Vehicles: Report of the Committee on Toxicity Hazards of Materials Used in Transit Vehicles, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- 253 (electronic edition), by Geoff Ryman (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment (New York: McGraw Pub. Co., c1904), by Interborough Rapid Transit Company (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment (based on the 1904 edition, with additional images), by Interborough Rapid Transit Company (illustrated HTML at nywcubway.org)
- A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities (open access edition; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Govind Gopakumar (PDF files at MIT Press)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: City planning- Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v20; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2017), ed. by Anamarija Batista, Szilvia Kovács, and Carina Lesky (PDF with commentary in Austria)
- Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (in English, Chinese, and Spanish; c2013), by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, and Kanako Iuchi (PDF files with commentary at worldbank.org)
- The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design (second edition; Princeton et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1963), by Arthur B. Gallion and Simon Eisner, illust. by Anthony Stoner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design (New York et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1950), by Arthur B. Gallion and Simon Eisner, illust. by Anthony Stoner (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the Best Arrangement of City Streets, by Lewis M. Haupt (page images at MOA)
- Roadtown (New York: Roadtown Press, c1910), by Edgar Chambless
- Designing Modern America: The Regional Planning Association of America and its Members (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by Edward K. Spann (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
- Die Einheitliche Blockfront als Raumelement im Stadtbau: Ein Beitrag zur Stadtbaukunst der Gegenwart (Berlin, B. Cassirer, 1911), by Walter Curt Behrendt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution (1971), by P. A. Yeomans (PDF at soilandhealth.org)
- Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment (originally published 1970), by Nicholas Negroponte
- The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))
- Welcome to the Green Village (Amsterdam: IOS Press, c2013), by Ad van Wijk (PDF at thegreenvillage.org)
- Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
- Esthétique des Villes (second edition, in French; Brussels: Bruyland-Christophe, 1894), by Charles Buls
- Architectural Space in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1972), by Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs, trans. by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (PDF files at MIT)
- Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
- Unleashing Economic Growth: Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal (Manila: Asian Development Bank, c2010), by KyeongAe Choe and Pushkar K. Pradhan (PDF with commentary at adb.org)
- Town Planning (partial serial archives)
- Urban Land (published by the Urban Land Institute since the 1940s; articles from 2010 onward online) (partial serial archives)
- Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2004), by Graham Livesey (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
- Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)
- Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1975), by N. A. Mili︠u︡tin, ed. by George R. Collins and William Alex, trans. by Arthur R. Sprague, contrib. by Tanya Page (PDF files at MIT)
- The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
- American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
- Cities (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Lawrence Halprin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
- How Cities Can Grow Old Gracefully: Subcommittee on the City of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, First Session (prepared for the committee; Washington: GPO, 1977), ed. by Henry S. Reuss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Public Parks: Being Two Papers Read Before the American Social Science Association in 1870 and 1880, Entitled, Respectively, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, and A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (1902), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google; US access only)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.