Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Repost) by Peter D. Norton
English | April 18th, 2008 | ISBN: 0786495820, 0262516128 | 409 Pages | PDF | 1.99 MB
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.