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This book was a very useful history of the downtowns of US cities during the 20th Century, and its second chapter was the most detailed history I've ever seen of rapid transit construction—and, more importantly, its absence or failure—in US cities outside of the Big Four (New York, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia) during the early 20th Century. I was also a bit surprised, though perhaps I shouldn't have been, to learn that the parking-craterization of US downtowns was a product of the Great De
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