Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-481) and index.
Contents
The rise and fall of the Pacific Electric: a case study in technological evolution and displacement -- Evaluating the promise and performance of rail -- Inventing demand for the Long Beach Line -- Questions of responsibility in forecasting -- The political and institutional makings of the Los Angeles County Light Rail Program -- A theory of myth -- The reality of imagery -- Integrating metaphors -- Technological sex symbols on steel rails -- Light rail and the symbolic promise of community renewal in Watts and Compton -- Synthesizing the political and the mythical -- Concluding implications-on the need to burst bubbles.
