Traffic

ISBN-13: 9781501329333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Paul R. Josephson

Opis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traffic. Exploring ways to reign in the power of the internal combustion engine, ramp back century-long efforts to increase the flows of traffic, and establish greater balance between humans and machines, Paul Josephson considers the history of traffic, and the political and other controversies that frame the belated technological efforts to calm it. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Recenzje

Traffic is both insightful and entertaining. Based on a range of sources, it provides us with a fuller understanding of the methods by which we might be able to control the negative effects of the automobile on our cities. Joel A. Tarr, Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Spis treści

Introduction1. Mushrooms in Minsk2. Speed Bumps in Twentieth Century Philosophy3. Utopian Visions of Machines and People: A World Without Speed Bumps4. Mumford and Moses5. The Historical Concatenation of Congestion6. Speed Bumpology7. Crashworthy Automobiles as Speed Bumps8. Race, Equality and Traffic9. Pedestrian Malls as Large Scale Speed Bumps10. The Woonerf: The Neighborhood Speed Bump11. Taming Roads Themselves12. Curb Cuts for People, Roundabouts for Automobiles13. The Bicycle as a Neo-Luddite Traffic Solution14. Gendered Speed Bumps15. If Stopped in Traffic, Hope for a Crashworthy Automobile16. Safety Delays in the Name of Freedom17. Speed Bump Downsides18. Waxing and Waning of Brazilian Speed Bumps19. Potholes and Paper Money20. Speed Bumps for Other Hopeful TechnologiesNotesIndex

O autorze

Paul Josephson is Professor of History at Colby College, USA. He is the author of twelve books, including Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), The Conquest of the Russian Arctic (Harvard University Press, 2014), Lenin's Laureate: A Life in Communist Science (MIT Press, 2010), Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism Under Socialism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), and Motorized Obsession: Life, Liberty and the Small Bore Engine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).