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"""Street Smart doesn't read as if you were stuck on the Cross-Bronx Expressway ('the most congested corridor in the entire country, ' [Scwartz] writes). Rather, it's mostly accessible, discerning, and even revealing."" -- ""New York Times"" ""A readable and provocative book making the convincing claim that the best city is one in which people can move around easily."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""A snappy read...[Schwartz's] account of President Eisenhower's creation of the interstate highway system is riveting, as is his informed discussion of the rise and fall of streetcars."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Anyone interested in how people get from place to place will find this...narrative instructive and entertaining."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""Schwartz sees the writing on the asphalt, even if the federal government, intent on building ever more highways, does not. The future isn't on four wheels. If you want your area to attract young people, entrepreneurs, and capital, you have to make it walkable."" -- ""Downtown Express"" ""Schwartz...chronicles in Street Smart the history of urban transportation in the US...He takes a strong stand, in some cases calling upon personal experiences that streets belong to communities, not cars, and that sustainable transportation planning is helping to revitalize cities."" -- ""Chicago Tribune"""

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"Samuel I. Schwartz, a.k.a. ""Gridlock Sam,"" is one of the leading transportation experts in the United States today. He served as New York City's traffic commissioner and the New York City Department of Transportation's chief engineer. Schwartz currently runs Sam Schwartz Engineering and is a columnist at the New York Daily News. He has been profiled by the New Yorker, New York Times, and many other national publications. Schwartz lives in New York City. William Rosen, a former editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and the Free Press, is the author of Justinian's Flea and The Most Powerful Idea in the World. He lives in New Jersey. Don Hagen has been behind the microphone since fifth grade. He is a nine-time winner of the Peer Award for narration/voice-over and twice winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award. He has also been heard in radio and television commercials and documentaries. In addition to his freelance voice work, he is a member of the audiobook narration team at the Library of Congress."

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