Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / / Peter Norton

• Autore: Norton Peter D
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 396 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 388.3/21097309042
• Soggetto topico: Transportation, Automotive - Social aspects - United States; Transportation, Automotive - United States - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-381) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• 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. The article, "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street" was adapted from chapter 3 of this book.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fighting traffic
• ISBN: 0-262-29388-9; 1-282-09958-2; 9786612099588; 0-262-28075-2; 1-4356-4350-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809379203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Inside technology.