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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town© 2021 Chuck Marohn 272 pages Chuck Marohn is a licensed engineer and urban planner who, in 2008, began sharing his concerns that the current approach to both building and financing … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged Chuck Marohn, cities, civic awareness, infrastructure, transportation, urbanism
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The Secret Life of Groceries
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket © 2020 Benjamin Lorr336 pages The Secret Life of Groceries opens at a fish counter and invites the reader to consider how much labor, creativity, money, pain, and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged business, food and drink, journalism, on the job, transportation
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Wide open spaces: riding with state troopers and a British lass
Goals and ambitions disappear in the glow of Christmas lights, lost in the end-year hubbub and reflection. I’ve been taking it easy by reading a couple of on-the-job memoirs, one by a Nevada state trooper and the other by a … Continue reading
Are We There Yet?
Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless © 2019 Dan Albert 304 pages Are we there yet? I mean, at the end of the book? Because it’s not fun. Oh, sure, the author is trying to … Continue reading
Romance of the Rails
Romance of the Rails: Why the Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need© 2018 Randal O’Toole300 pages “These are the 1930s again, with all the charm and romance, all the gaiety! That was a carefree world, Danny, and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged cities, Politics-CivicInterest, trains, transportation, trolleys!
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Short rounds and leftovers:
Hello, readers! Here’s hoping those of you in the US had an enjoyable Thanksgiving on Thursday. I thoroughly enjoyed the company of my cousins, though I did rather poorly in our board game of choice. I blame the dice. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Europe, memoir, technology, Technology and Society, transportation
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Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am
Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am© 2011 Robert Gandt351 pages How does a world-class airline fall so quickly from the heights that its pilots are accidentally locked in the building when it closes its doors for the last time, forced … Continue reading
Door to Door
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation© 2016 Edward Humes384 pages Are you interested in the Port of Los Angeles? Do you hate cars and find hushed reports of every auto death in a single day great … Continue reading
Fares Please!
Fares, Please! A Popular History of Trolleys, Horsecars, Streetcar,s, Buses, Elevateds, and Subways© 1941, 1960 John Anderson Miller204 pages With her high starch collar and her high-topped shoes, and her hair piled high above her headShe went to find a … Continue reading
Conquest of the Skies
Conquest of the Skies: A History of Commercial Aviation in America© 1979 Carl Solberg441 pages If ever you wanted a history of commercial aviation in the United States, Conquest of the Skies is it. Beginning with the origins of flight … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged aviation, business, goods/services, history, transportation
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