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This work explores New York's transit system as both fact and metaphor. Brooks traces the development of the subway from its inception as the newest and most efficient public transportation system to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life. He explores films which have dramatized the dangers lurking underground, but also the(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
August 1997, New Brunswick, N.J.
Subway city : riding the trains, reading New York
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This work explores New York's transit system as both fact and metaphor. Brooks traces the development of the subway from its inception as the newest and most efficient public transportation system to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life. He explores films which have dramatized the dangers lurking underground, but also the improvements and ambitious programmes such as Music Underground, Poetry in Transit, and Arts-in-Transit, as keys to the city's renewal.
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August 1997, New Brunswick, N.J.
Architecture since 1900, Europe