| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 396 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Inside technology |
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Inside technology.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-381) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| 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
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Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects
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Einfluss
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Kraftwagen
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Stadt
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Stadtverkehr
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Verkehrsregelung
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262280754 |
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0262280752 |
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9781435643505 |
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143564350X |
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9780262293884 |
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0262293889 |
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1282099582 |
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9781282099586 |
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9786612099588 |
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6612099585 |
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