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Traffic logic, state strategies and free speech in an urban park: The Park Lane Road Improvement Scheme, London, 1955–1962 (2023)

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Policy making Roads -- Design and construction Civil rights Traffic regulations 20th century, late London (England)

‘Traffic logic’ draws attention to how civil rights in public space, such as free speech, are often compromised by officials in favour of expanding bureaucratic traffic codes, designs and plans. However, internal disputes among state departments about nascent traffic logic schemes will sometimes be strategically employed by social movements to campaign for civil liberties and rights in public space. This article explores these issues through the example of the Park Lane Road Improvement Scheme in London, which was completed in 1962. The road scheme's purpose was to build new roundabouts at Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch and convert a strip of land within Hyde Park and Park Lane into a dual carriageway. But this area in Hyde Park was also home to the famous place for free speech, Speakers' Corner. By looking in detail at discussions and disagreements about the road scheme within state departments and their partners, the paper shows how civil liberties campaigners and Speakers' Corner regulars used the strategic terrain carved out by these discussions to campaign for existing and new free speech entitlements and rights at Hyde Park.

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Authors & Contributors
Metzl, Jonathan Michel
Rossiter, Margaret W.
Sheard, Sally
Shindell, Matthew Benjamin
Tiemeyer, Philip James
Tilley, Helen
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
American Quarterly
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Environment and History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History of Psychiatry
Publishers
MIT Press
Éditions Autrement
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of California Press
University of California, San Diego
Concepts
Civil rights
Policy making
Technology and politics
Psychiatric hospitals
African Americans and science
Cold War
People
Beecher, Henry Knowles
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Africa
Great Britain
China
Denmark
Europe
Institutions
European Space Agency (ESA)
National Health Service (Great Britain)
National Research Council (U.S.)
United Nations
World Health Organization (WHO)
United States. Geological Survey
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