Author: Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Street Traffic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Report and Recommendations of the Metropolitan Street Traffic Survey
Author: Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Street Traffic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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.
Information Bulletin
Author: Special Libraries AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Proceedings of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia
Author: Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center
Author: Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Ida M. LynnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
The Street Railway Journal
Author: Municipal Reference Library Notes
Author: New York Public Library. Municipal Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Author: