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Watching the Traffic Go By : Transportation and Isolation in Urban America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292795358
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Watching the Traffic Go ByDDC classification:
  • 388.40973
LOC classification:
  • TA1023
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Stabilizing Mobility -- Part 1. Transportation As Antidote to Modern City -- Chapter 1. The Trolley, the Automobile, and Autonomy -- Chapter 2. Townless Highways and Highwayless Towns -- Part 2. German Critical Theory Meets American Cartopia -- Chapter 4. Film Noir and the Hidden Violence of Transportation in Los Angeles -- Chapter 3. The Building of a Superhighway Future at the New York World's Fair -- Part 3. The Public's Fears of Urban Gridlock -- Chapter 5. Stories of the MTA: Contesting Meanings of Subway Space -- Chapter 6. Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the Armored Automobile -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Stabilizing Mobility -- Part 1. Transportation As Antidote to Modern City -- Chapter 1. The Trolley, the Automobile, and Autonomy -- Chapter 2. Townless Highways and Highwayless Towns -- Part 2. German Critical Theory Meets American Cartopia -- Chapter 4. Film Noir and the Hidden Violence of Transportation in Los Angeles -- Chapter 3. The Building of a Superhighway Future at the New York World's Fair -- Part 3. The Public's Fears of Urban Gridlock -- Chapter 5. Stories of the MTA: Contesting Meanings of Subway Space -- Chapter 6. Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the Armored Automobile -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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