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Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Inside technology.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Index