Riding the New York subway : the invention of the modern passenger / Stefan Hohne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hohne, Stefan, author.

Series:

Infrastructures series.

Infrastructures series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban transportation--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Urban transportation.

Subways--Social aspects--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Subways.

Subways--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2021]

Summary:

A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride. When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Hohne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century.

Contents:

Utopian Passengers

Machines and the Masses

Techniques of the Senses

Crisis and Critique

Strategies of Indignation

Subjects and Containers.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-36325-9

0-262-36199-X

OCLC:

1202404895