Urban Transportation

Not counting my college thesis, my first project concerned urban mass transit, primarily in the Washington, D.C., region.

• The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
  Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2006, this book argues argues that Metro can only be understood in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
• “Thinking Big: Lessons from the Washington Metro,” TR News 249 (March-April 2007): 18-20.
• “How Metro Shapes D.C.,” Washington Post, 7 May 2006.
• “The Freeway Fight in Washington, D.C.: The Three Sisters Bridge in Three Administrations,” Journal of Urban History 30 (July 2004): 648-673.
• “Mapping Metro, 1955-1968: Urban, Suburban, and Metropolitan Alternatives,” Washington History 13 (Spring/Summer 2001): 4-23, 90-92.
• “‘The Bus is Young and Honest’: Transportation Politics, Technical Choice, and the Motorization of Manhattan Surface Transit, 1919-1936,” Technology and Culture 41 (January 2000): 51-79