{"product_id":"street-smart-the-rise-of-cities-and-the-fall-of-cars-hardcover","title":"Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel I. Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Rosen\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn't. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had induced the demand for car travel. It was a classic case of \"build it and they will come,\" but for the first time the opposite had been shown to be true: knock it down and they will go away. Samuel I. Schwartz was inspired by the lesson. He started to reimagine cities, most of all his beloved New York, freed from their obligation to cars. Eventually, he found, he was not alone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a surreptitious revolution has taken place: every year Americans are driving fewer miles. And the generation named for this new century -- the Millennials -- are driving least of all. Not because they can't afford to; they don't want to. They have better ideas for how to use their streets. An urban transformation is underway, and smart streets are at the heart of it. They will boost property prices and personal fitness, roll back years of congestion and smog, and offer a transformative experience of American urban life. From San Francisco to Salt Lake, Charleston to Houston, the American city is becoming a better and better place to be. Schwartz's \u003ci\u003eStreet Smart\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling and affectionate history of the struggle for control of American cities, and an inspiring off-road map to a more vibrant, active, and vigorous urban future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e, a.k.a. \"Gridlock Sam,\" is one of the leading transportation experts in the United States today. He served as New York City's traffic commissioner and the New York City Department of Transportation's chief engineer. Schwartz currently runs Sam Schwartz Engineering and is a columnist at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been profiled by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other national publications. Schwartz lives in New York City and owns a Volvo that can drive without him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Rosen\u003c\/b\u003e is a former editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, and The Free Press. He has contributed to the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Interest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLapham's Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World, Bloomberg\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian's Echoes\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eJustinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (Viking), \u003ci\u003eThe Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House) and \u003ci\u003eThe Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century\u003c\/i\u003e (Viking).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67630179680530,"sku":"9781610395649","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/69-Oad130h9781610395649.webp?v=1792540302","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/street-smart-the-rise-of-cities-and-the-fall-of-cars-hardcover","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}