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Eric Jaffe

Eric Jaffe

Eric Jaffe

Eric Jaffe is the author of The King’s Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America, which won the U.S. Postal Service’s 2012 Moroney Award for Scholarship in Postal History. He’s a former web editor of Smithsonian magazine and now writes for The Atlantic Cities, a site devoted to urban life run by The Atlantic magazine.

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A Curious Madness will be released on January 14, 2014 in Hardcover, eBook
Jun 18, 2013
The King's Best Highway will be released on May 11, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 11, 2013
The King's Best Highway is now available in Trade Paperback
May 11, 2013
Jun 30, 2010
The King's Best Highway is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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The King's Best Highway will be released on June 22, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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Yahoo Philippines News, July 28, 2012
...David Dobbs Inside the Minds of Mass Killers by Daniel Lende How Urban Parks Enhance Your Brain by Eric Jaffe World s Coolest Animal Bridges and Should Dolphins and Whales Have Human Rights? by Rachel Nuwer and by Rose Eveleth There is no greenhouse...
Chicago Magazine, May 31, 2013
...it's worth cracking a few skulls to make an omelet. This is why it's a paradox, Eric Jaffe writes, reflecting on a new study from the University of Toronto on helmet use in Canada: [W]hat's clearly good for the individual rider appears oddly neutral...
Grist Magazine, May 31, 2013
...without.” So what if we eliminated all these variables and just forced everyone to wear helmets? Earlier this week Eric Jaffe at Atlantic Cities looked at how  mandating the use of those head protectors actually works  in practice,  based on...
Newsvine, May 30, 2013
...Typically in transportation and most social arenas, for that matter laws promoting safety precautions lead to an increase in public health. Legislation on speed limits, drunk driving, and seatbelt are a few of the most obvious examples. Even bans on the...
Planetizen, May 25, 2013
...While much of the current discussion in planning centers on decreasing road capacity to promote greater pedestrian mobility, Eric Jaffe wonders if we are thinking enough about the critical and complex task of moving freight. Though it’s long been...
Planetizen, May 24, 2013
...cities about unreal expectations for improving mobility. "In many ways the attraction to streetcars is understandable," writes Eric Jaffe. "Advocates such as Darrin Nordahl like to point out that streetcars are far more charming than buses and are...
Yahoo! News, May 22, 2013
...the grand scheme of urban mobility, it's easy to lose track of commercial freight movement," begins Eric Jaffe in exploring how the freight industry is dealing with America's less-than-ideal infrastructure. "Commuters are the primary source of traffic...
Orlando Sentinel, May 20, 2013
...In "C-," Eric Jaffe checks in with old frat brothers 20-plus years after college and shares their lives in a series of vignettes. Jaffe's plenty engaging but his show's premise...