Fighting Traffic
The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as jaywalkers. In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-29388-4
- EAN: 9780262293884
- Produktnummer: 35449637
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 10'837 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 B&W PHOTOS, 28 B&W ILLUS.
Über den Autor
Peter D. Norton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia.
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