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Urban Mass Transit is meant to be a short introductory text, but readers thoroughly familiar with the subject will also find it both enjoyable and useful, for Post has made interesting observations about how and why transit developed in the ways in which it did which many of us may have not thought of before. - Lexington Quarterly Post has done an excellent job, using stories, photographs, sketches, and facts to construct a fascinating historical account of innovation. - Choice

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Robert C. Post is a curator emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on the relationship between technology and culture, including Street Railways and the Growth of Los Angeles, The Tancook Whalers: Origins, Rediscovery, Revival, and High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-2000, which was also published by Johns Hopkins.

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