A brief primer on transit and urban development --
Atlanta : The city too busy to hate --
Boston : Urban institutions, megaprojects, and city revival --
Chicago : The Loop elevated, beloved steel eyesore --
Cincinnati : A short history of a never-used subway --
Cleveland : Transit and the perils of waterfront redevelopment --
Dallas : They don't build them like they used to --
Detroit : The city-suburban rift and the most useless transit system in the world --
Houston : The city of organic growth --
Los Angeles : 72 suburbs in search of a city --
Miami : Overpromise, underdeliver --
Minneapolis-St. Paul : The mob takeover of Twin City rapid transit --
Montreal : The metro as showcase megaproject --
New Orleans : How a big city grew into a small town --
New York City : The tortured history of the Second Avenue subway --
Philadelphia : How not to run a railroad --
Pittsburgh : How to make buses work --
Richmond : The first streetcar system --
Rochester : The only city to open a subway, then close it --
San Francisco : The view from Geary Street --
Seattle : Consensus through exhaustion --
Toronto : Subway line as political football --
Vancouver : An exceptional elevated --
Washington, DC : The freeway revolt and the creation of Metro --
