[PDF.88gj] Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)

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 | #818691 in Books |  The MIT Press |  2011-01-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.81 x6.00l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 408 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Forgotten war against pedestrians|By John Forester|Peter Norton describes a long-forgotten aspect of the appearance of mass motoring in America, the war between motorists and pedestrians. When neither motorists nor pedestrians had significant rules, the appearance of a road vehicle that went faster than ever before resulted in pedestrian deaths. These produced strong anti-motor| ||In this exquisitely researched book, Norton guides us through the complex and passionate debates that cleared the street to make way for the car. These decisions made decades ago still shape our cities, so they are vital to understanding the future of the aut

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 ...

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