Railways And Social Conditions
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Author | : Elisabeth Köll |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674916425 |
As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Author | : United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Noise control |
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Author | : Henry George |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : George Henry Lewis |
Publisher | : New-York, Dodd, Mead |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Nanak Batukram Mehta |
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Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Political science |
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Author | : Jean-Paul Rodrigue |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1136777326 |
Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.
Author | : John Francis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Author | : John Francis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Sir John Harold Clapham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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