Traffic / Paul Josephson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Josephson, Paul R., author.

Series:

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traffic engineering--Popular works.

Traffic engineering.

Traffic calming--Popular works.

Traffic calming.

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

ix, 178 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2017.

Summary:

Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traffic. Exploring ways to reign in the power of the internal combustion engine, ramp back century-long efforts to increase the flows of traffic, and establish greater balance between humans and machines, Paul Josephson considers the history of traffic, and the political and other controversies that frame the belated technological efforts to calm it.

Contents:

Mushrooms in Minsk

Speed bumps in twentieth century philosophy

Utopian visions of machines and people : a world without speed bumps

Mumford and Moses

The historical concatenation of congestion

Speed bumpology

Crashworthy automobiles as speed bumps

Race, equality and traffic

Pedestrian malls as large scale speed bumps

The woonerf : the neighborhood speed bump

Taming roads themselves

Curb cuts for people, roundabouts for automobiles

The bicycle as a neo-luddite traffic solution

Gendered speed bumps

If stopped in traffic, hope for a crashworthy automobile

Safety delays in the name of freedom

Speed bump downsides

Waxing and waning of Brazilian speed bumps

Potholes and paper money

Speed bumps for other hopeful technologies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Josephson, Paul R. Traffic.

ISBN:

9781501329333

1501329332

OCLC:

955778989

Publisher Number:

99981561455