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Autore |
Norton Peter D |
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Titolo |
Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / / Peter Norton |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-29388-9 |
1-282-09958-2 |
9786612099588 |
0-262-28075-2 |
1-4356-4350-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 396 p.) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Transportation, Automotive - Social aspects - United States |
Transportation, Automotive - United States - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-381) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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