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This book scrutinizes the social, political and technological forces that shaped our cities and their transportation systems. By comparing two of the most powerful twentieth-century economies, the United States and Germany, it explores the factors - largely those of economic concentration and bureaucratic centralization - that transformed urban life.Yago, Glenn is the author of 'Decline of Transit Urban Transportation in German and U. S. Cities, 1900-1970' with ISBN 9780521256339 and ISBN 052125633X.
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