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Watching the traffic go by : transportation and isolation in urban America / Paul Mason Fotsch.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fotsch, Paul Mason, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation engineering--United States.
- Transportation engineering.
- City and town life--United States.
- City and town life.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- A timely, interdisciplinary analysis, Watching the Traffic Go By exposes the ugly side of transportation politics through the seldom-used lens of popular culture.
- Contents:
- The trolley, the automobile, and autonomy
- Townless highways and highwayless towns
- The building of a superhighway future at the New York World's Fair
- Film noir and the hidden violence of transportation in Los Angeles
- Stories of the MTA: contesting meanings of subway space
- Urban freeway stories: racial politics and the armored automobile.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780292714250
- 0292714254
- 9780292714267
- 0292714262
- OCLC:
- 66392522
- Online:
- Publisher description
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