From Traffic Regulation to Limited Ways: The Effort to Build a Science of Transportation Planning

Journal of Planning History

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-34

  Brown, Jeffrey ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

scientific methods; transportation planning; urban history

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992897958     PISSN: 15385132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538513205284628     Document Type: Article

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