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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452338903321

Autore

Fotsch Paul Mason <1965->

Titolo

Watching the traffic go by [[electronic resource] ] : transportation and isolation in urban America / / Paul Mason Fotsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007

ISBN

0-292-79535-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

388.40973

Soggetti

Transportation engineering - United States

City and town life - United States

Popular culture - United States

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. [207]-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.