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Modern Trains and Splendid Stations: Architecture, Design, and Rail Travel for the Twenty-First Century
By : Martha Thorne
Inter-city rail travel is one of the dominant facts of modern life. In the wake of the railway renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s, new train stations from the US to Japan must respond to increasingly complex challenges, as high-speed trains become more and more common and the next generation of magnetically levitated trains approaches. The state-of-the-art examples featured in Modern Trains and Splendid Stations are analyzed from several perspectives: as generators of urban renewal; as new...
Publisher: Merrell Publishers


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