Book ID: CBB000774891

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (2008)

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Norton, Peter D. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: ix + 396 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the social transformation of the city streets between the 1910s and 1930s that resulted in the automobile's nearly exclusive dominance.


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Review Epperson, Bruce (2009) Review of "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City". Technology and Culture (p. 235). unapi

Review Heitmann, John A. (2009) Review of "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 426). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lundin, Per
Berger, Michael L.
Bruhèze, Adri Albert de la
Chatzis, Konstantinos
Dennis, Richard
Franz, Kathleen
Journals
Technology and Culture
The Journal of Transport History
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Transfers
Twentieth-Century British History
Métropoles
Publishers
University of Washington Press
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ohio State University
Cambridge University Press
Island Press
Stockholmia Förlag
Concepts
Automobiles
Technology and society
Urban planning
Roads and highways
Urban history
Technology
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Berlin (Germany)
Germany
Sweden
New York City (New York, U.S.)
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