The rise and fall of the Pacific Electric: a case study in technological evolution and displacement

Evaluating the promise and performance of rail

Inventing demand for the Long Beach Line

Questions of responsibility in forecasting

The political and institutional makings of the Los Angeles County Light Rail Program

A theory of myth

The reality of imagery

Integrating metaphors

Technological sex symbols on steel rails

Light rail and the symbolic promise of community renewal in Watts and Compton

Synthesizing the political and the mythical

Concluding implications-on the need to burst bubbles.