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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451577603321

Autore

Norton Peter D

Titolo

Fighting traffic [[electronic resource] ] : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / / Peter Norton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-29388-9

1-282-09958-2

9786612099588

0-262-28075-2

1-4356-4350-X

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Inside technology

Disciplina

388.3/21097309042

Soggetti

Transportation, Automotive - Social aspects - United States

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.