Philip Mark Plotch

Last Subway

The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City

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Produktbeschreibung

"The story of the Second Avenue subway, as it symbolizes New York's inability to modernize its infrastructure and reveals the ingredients necessary to build a twenty-first-century megaproject"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 165mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780801453663
• ISBN-10: 0801453666
• Artikelnr.: 56971706

Autorenporträt

Philip Mark Plotch is an associate professor of political science and director of the Master of Public Administration program at Saint Peter's University. He has served as Director of World Trade Center Redevelopment and Special Projects at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and manager of planning and policy at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Plotch is the award-winning author of Politics Across the Hudson . Follow him on X @profplotch.

Inhaltsangabe

Introducrion: Long Wait for a Train
1. From a Compact City into a Metropolis
2. An Empty Promise
3. The Billionaire's Ambitions
4. Construction Begins and Construction Ends
5. Saving the Subway
6. Planning from the Bottom Up
7. A Twenty-First-Century Subway
8. Building a Subway and Unleashing the Plagues
9. Andrew Cuomo's Finish Line
Conclusion: Delays Ahead