LEADER 03639nam 22006374a 450 001 9910818270803321 005 20230721031521.0 010 $a0-292-79535-1 024 7 $a10.7560/714250 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472948 035 $a(OCoLC)297304890 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10190653 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269236 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954613 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269236 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243411 035 $a(PQKB)10394841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443071 035 $a(OCoLC)155844109 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2259 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190653 035 $a(DE-B1597)586968 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944774 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795358 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472948 100 $a20060313d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWatching the traffic go by$b[electronic resource] $etransportation and isolation in urban America /$fPaul Mason Fotsch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71425-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aAs twentieth-century city planners invested in new transportation systems to deal with urban growth, they ensured that the automobile rather than mass transit would dominate transportation. Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch shows how our urban infrastructure developed and how it has shaped American culture ever since. Watching the Traffic Go By emphasizes the narratives underlying our perceptions of innovations in transportation by looking at the stories we have built around these innovations. Fotsch finds such stories in the General Motors "Futurama" exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair, debates in Munsey's magazine, films such as Double Indemnity, and even in footage of the O. J. Simpson chase along Los Angeles freeways. Juxtaposed with contemporaneous critiques by Lewis Mumford, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer, Fotsch argues that these narratives celebrated new technologies that fostered stability for business and the white middle class. At the same time, transportation became another system of excluding women and the poor, especially African Americans, by isolating them in homes and urban ghettos. A timely, interdisciplinary analysis, Watching the Traffic Go By exposes the ugly side of transportation politics through the seldom-used lens of popular culture. 606 $aTransportation engineering$zUnited States 606 $aCity and town life$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 615 0$aTransportation engineering 615 0$aCity and town life 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a388.40973 700 $aFotsch$b Paul Mason$f1965-$01593067 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818270803321 996 $aWatching the traffic go by$93913012 997 $aUNINA