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streetcars  

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  • From the 1880s to at least the 1930s, streetcars provided the main means of transport in cities across the world. Horse-pulled and later electrically powered railways constituted the means by which many urban centers underwent an unprecedented physical and demographic expansion. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Streetcars]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-X7XDGNGM-G

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