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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norton, Peter, 1963-

Series:

Inside technology.

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects--United States.

Transportation, Automotive.

Transportation, Automotive--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 396 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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. The article, "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street" was adapted from chapter 3 of this book.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-381) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-29388-9

1-282-09958-2

9786612099588

0-262-28075-2

1-4356-4350-X

OCLC:

228112316