Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Checklist of Official North Carolina Publications Received by the University of North Carolina Library
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Indexes to HUD Sponsored Comprehensive Planning Reports
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
A Land Use Bibliography of North Carolina
Author: James W. ClayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Unto These Hills
Author: Kermit HunterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807868751
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee
ERIC Educational Documents Index
Author: Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
"A subject-author-institution index which provides titles and accession numbers to the document and report literature that was announced in the monthly issues of Resources in education" (earlier called Research in education).
Fighting Traffic
Author: Peter D. NortonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262293889
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. 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, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.