Lost Subways of North America by Jake Berman
One of the things that Americans love to do is go on vacation to Europe, take the train and be whisked blissfully away to Paris, London, Berlin etc etc and then come home to gush about how American trains just don’t cut it. Well, they’re right. But it wasn’t always this way. There was a time when even cities of small size were planning ahead for the transportation needs of their citizens. This elegantly designed book is a beautiful, even tragic look back on the grand, ultimately foiled aspirations of transit planners of yore. Read this book and ponder what could have been and what may yet be in store for us.
One of the things that Americans love to do is go on vacation to Europe, take the train and be whisked blissfully away to Paris, London, Berlin etc etc and then come home to gush about how American trains just don’t cut it. Well, they’re right. But it wasn’t always this way. There was a time when even cities of small size were planning ahead for the transportation needs of their citizens. This elegantly designed book is a beautiful, even tragic look back on the grand, ultimately foiled aspirations of transit planners of yore. Read this book and ponder what could have been and what may yet be in store for us.
One of the things that Americans love to do is go on vacation to Europe, take the train and be whisked blissfully away to Paris, London, Berlin etc etc and then come home to gush about how American trains just don’t cut it. Well, they’re right. But it wasn’t always this way. There was a time when even cities of small size were planning ahead for the transportation needs of their citizens. This elegantly designed book is a beautiful, even tragic look back on the grand, ultimately foiled aspirations of transit planners of yore. Read this book and ponder what could have been and what may yet be in store for us.
