Metropolitan Networks [Spanish] [Paperback]

Jordi Julia Sort (Author)

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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Gustavo Gili; 1� ed. edition (15 Jan 2006)
Language Spanish
ISBN-10: 8425219930
ISBN-13: 978-8425219931
Product Dimensions: 30.8 x 22.8 x 1.6 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,380,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This book is a study of mass transit networks in urban areas and of their role in shaping the structure of the city. It establishes links between the history, planning and transport networks of eleven international cities (London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Mexico City and Singapore), in a survey which helps us bring to mind the origins of modern means of transport: of conventional railways and their subsequent conversion into metros and tramways, and into today's high-speed trains; of the appearance in the metropolitan context of the motor car and bus, and the arrival of motorways and contemporary airports. In short, the history and morphology of transport networks in our big cities are described through the detailed study and comparative analysis of developments in each of them, all of this with a wealth of images, maps and data of interest.

About the Author

Jordi Julia (Terrassa, Barcelona, 1959) is a civil engineer who graduated from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. He has been Transport and Mobility Projects Chief for the Agencia Metropolitana Barcelona Regional (1994-2004) and General Director of Ports and Transports for the Generalitat de Catalunya (2004-2005). At the present he is Technical Director of Railway Infrastructures of Catalonia.

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I love any book about publick transportation 18 July 2006

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About the book according to tne publisher: This book is a study of mass transit networks in urban areas and of their role in shaping the structure of the city. It establishes links between the history, planning and transport networks of eleven international cities (London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Mexico City and Singapore), in a survey which helps us bring to mind the origins of modern means of transport: of conventional railways and their subsequent conversion into metros and tramways, and into today's high-speed trains; of the appearance in the metropolitan context of the motor car and bus, and the arrival of motorways and contemporary airports. In short, the history and morphology of transport networks in our big cities, described through the detailed study and comparative analysis of developments in each of them, all of this with a wealth of images, maps and data of interest.

200 pp

30 x 23 cm

Paperback

english/español

ISBN: 84�252�1993�0

En colaboración con Barcelona Regional - In collaboration with Barcelona Regional

300 ilustraciones en color y b/n - 300 colour and b&w illustrations

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