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Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / Peter D. Norton

Author
Norton, Peter D.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 396 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction What Are Streets For? -- I Justice -- 1 Blood, Grief, and Anger -- 2 Police Traffic Regulation: Ex Chao Ordo -- 3 Whose Street? Joyriders versus Jaywalkers -- II Efficiency -- 4 Streets as Public Utilities -- 5 Traffic Control -- 6 Traffic Efficiency versus Motor Freedom -- III Freedom -- 7 The Commodification of Streets -- 8 Traffic Safety for the Motor Age -- 9 The Dawn of the Motor Age -- Conclusion History, Technology, and the Dawn of the Motor Age -- Notes -- Inside Technology -- Index
Summary
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 restructured for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as a place where motorists belonged.
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9780262280754 (electronic bk.)
0262280752 (electronic bk.)
9781435643505 (electronic bk.)
143564350X (electronic bk.)
9780262293884 (electronic bk.)
0262293889 (electronic bk.)
1282099582
9781282099586
9786612099588
6612099585
0262141000
9780262141000
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-381) and index.
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