Fighting Traffic
The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 408
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Inside Technology
- EAN: 9780262516129
- Utgivelsesår: 2011
- Bidragsyter: Norton, Peter D. (Assistant Professor)
Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” 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 reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncov
