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