Martha J Bianco
Biographic Data
| ID | 1469864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha J Bianco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bianco |
| SIGNATURE | BIANCO M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Implementation: The Corporatist Paradigm Applied to the Implementation of Oregon’s Statewide Transportation Planning Rule
This article examines how the public and private sector negotiate implementation of a controversial public policy, Oregon’s Transportation Planning Rule. The Rule, adopted in 1991, originally called for all localities to create plans in compliance with goals of a 20 percent decrease in vehicle miles traveled and a 10 percent decrease in parking spaces over a 30-year period, which has presented a challenge to policy actors. This article places the…
Technological Innovation and the Rise and Fall of Urban Mass Transit
This article departs from the usual discussion of the role of urban transit in effecting spatial change and looks instead at how public pol - icy and the conflicting demands of various constituencies contributed to the demise of the urban mass transit industry. 1 Five constituent groups affected urban transit's evolution and eventual decline: transit company employees, business interests, politicians, investors, and, of course, riders. Each of th…
The Decline of Transit: A Corporate Conspiracy or Failure of Public Policy? The Case of Portland, Oregon
In his 1974 testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Bradford Snell lay partial blame for the decline of mass transit in the United States on a targeted program, spearheaded by General Motors (GM), with the goal of “substitution of buses for passenger trains, streetcars and trolley buses; monopolization of bus production; and diversion of riders to automobiles.” Snell argued that General Motors and its subsidiary c…
Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning by Mark Luccarelli
990 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE most university libraries, but it should be part of any industrial his tory collection. Lindy Biggs Dr. Biggs teaches history at Auburn University and is the author of The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America’sAge ofManufacturing (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning. By Mark Luccarelli. New York: The …
Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning
The Politics of Implementation: The Corporatist Paradigm Applied to the Implementation of Oregon’s Statewide Transportation Planning Rule
This article examines how the public and private sector negotiate implementation of a controversial public policy, Oregon’s Transportation Planning Rule. The Rule, adopted in 1991, originally called for all localities to create plans in compliance with goals of a 20 percent decrease in vehicle miles traveled and a 10 percent decrease in parking spaces over a 30-year period, which has presented a challenge to policy actors. This article places the…
The Decline of Transit: A Corporate Conspiracy or Failure of Public Policy? The Case of Portland, Oregon
In his 1974 testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Bradford Snell lay partial blame for the decline of mass transit in the United States on a targeted program, spearheaded by General Motors (GM), with the goal of “substitution of buses for passenger trains, streetcars and trolley buses; monopolization of bus production; and diversion of riders to automobiles.” Snell argued that General Motors and its subsidiary c…
Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning by Mark Luccarelli
990 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE most university libraries, but it should be part of any industrial his tory collection. Lindy Biggs Dr. Biggs teaches history at Auburn University and is the author of The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America’sAge ofManufacturing (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning. By Mark Luccarelli. New York: The …
Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning
Technological Innovation and the Rise and Fall of Urban Mass Transit
This article departs from the usual discussion of the role of urban transit in effecting spatial change and looks instead at how public pol - icy and the conflicting demands of various constituencies contributed to the demise of the urban mass transit industry. 1 Five constituent groups affected urban transit's evolution and eventual decline: transit company employees, business interests, politicians, investors, and, of course, riders. Each of th…
The Politics of Implementation: The Corporatist Paradigm Applied to the Implementation of Oregon’s Statewide Transportation Planning Rule
This article examines how the public and private sector negotiate implementation of a controversial public policy, Oregon’s Transportation Planning Rule. The Rule, adopted in 1991, originally called for all localities to create plans in compliance with goals of a 20 percent decrease in vehicle miles traveled and a 10 percent decrease in parking spaces over a 30-year period, which has presented a challenge to policy actors. This article places the…
Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Urban Planning and Landscape Design (3 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works)