Robert C Post

Urban Mass Transit

The Life Story of a Technology

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Produktbeschreibung

Post concludes with a meditation on the prospects for mass transit in a postmodern society that must face up to the contradictions of privatized mobility and the reality of dwindling natural resources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780801893155
• ISBN-10: 0801893151
• Artikelnr.: 26607327

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Post, now curator emeritus, was employed by the Smithsonian for twenty-three years, beginning in 1973. He was responsible for several technological collections and story-driven exhibits. The author of Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology and High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-2000, he has been the recipient of the Society for the History of Technology's Leonardo da Vinci Medal. He also edited the quarterly journal Technology and Culture.