Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / Peter Norton.
Norton, Peter D.
2008
HE5623 .N67 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / Peter Norton.
Author Norton, Peter D.
ISBN 9780262141000 (alk. paper)
0262141000 (alk. paper)
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
Language English
Description ix, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HE5623 .N67 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 388.3/21097309042
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Inside technology.
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Introduction: What are streets for?
I. Justice. Blood, grief, and anger ; Police traffic regulation: Ex Chao Ordo ; Whose street? Joyriders versus jaywalkers
II. Efficiency. Streets as public utilities ; Traffic control ; Traffic efficiency versus motor freedom
III. Freedom. The commodification of streets ; Traffic safety for the motor age ; The dawn of the motor age
Conclusion: History, technology, and the dawn of the motor age.

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