722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York

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This Paperback Book item from The Johns Hopkins University Press was reviewed on 7-Nov-2008.

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1) Paperback Book 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by The Johns Hopkins University Press. this book mainly about how the transportation system evolved and stuff in NYC. Very informative...mostly a research of the past and such to now...like a research paper mostly book form.

however, delivery from amazon is horrible....took like 2 weeks to get here? so i was behind in reading for school.¤

2) Paperback Book 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by The Johns Hopkins University Press. In response to other reviewers: this book is not MEANT to be a tourist guide, it IS, however, an academic study, and a very good one indeed. For those who did not enjoy the book, because of it´s lack of pictures, perhaps the problems lie with the reader rather than the author?¤

3) Paperback Book 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by The Johns Hopkins University Press. As a daily rider of the New York subway system, I find it dynamic and exciting piece of living history. This book, however, was not. It is a plodding academic treatment that focuses more on politics than the actual system. The pictures were too few. The maps were poorly realized and uninformative. As the system is still in place largely as it was decades ago, I would have liked references to the current line and station names instead of trying to guess or sit there with my own maps (something you can´t do if reading while riding the subway). The subway system represents both a technological marvel and an instrument of great social change. Where is that book.¤

4) Paperback Book 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by The Johns Hopkins University Press. my only criticism of this book is that 1/3 of it is of footnotes. when the book ended, there was too much reference material here. the jackson heights subway line info is interesting as it is not common to focus on an area outsideof manhattan as much. a good read. the poltical machinisms to get the work done are a worthy read.¤

5) Paperback Book 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by The Johns Hopkins University Press. As another reviewer mentioned, this isn´t a tourist guide. There aren´t that many maps, and the ones present do not show stops. Aside from the creation of new suburbs such as Jackson Heights, there isn´t a whole lot of discussion of how the subways affected neighborhoods after they were built, especially after cars began to take over.

The main point this book makes is how the combination of enforced low fares and the perception of rapid transit as a business rather than a public service caused the subways´ decline. The beginning of the book describes some of the engineering problems involved in building subways in New York. I would have liked to have seen more of that, especially for later, non-IRT subways; diagrams of the terrain in question would have been interesting.

Anyway, the book has to stop somewhere. For all that´s left out, the discussion of people and politics, and of how things could have turned out differently, is fascinating.¤

6) Paperback Book 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue -- the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND or Independent Subway line in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles -- long enough to reach from New York to Chicago.

In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway´s centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century´s greatest urban achievements."

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