| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 396 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Inside technology |
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Inside technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-381) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| 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"" |
| Subject |
Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Transportation, Automotive -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History.
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Transportation, Automotive. (OCoLC)fst01155327
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Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01155379
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Norton, Peter D. Fighting traffic. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262141000 (DLC) 2007035522 (OCoLC)170202979 |
| Standard No. |
9786612099588 |
| ISBN |
9780262280754 (electronic bk.) |
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0262280752 (electronic bk.) |
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9781435643505 (electronic bk.) |
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143564350X (electronic bk.) |
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9780262293884 (electronic bk.) |
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0262293889 (electronic bk.) |
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