Traffic
(Sprache: Englisch)
Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traffic, reign in the power of the internal combustion engine, ramp back century-long efforts to increase the flow of traffic, and...
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Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traffic, reign in the power of the internal combustion engine, ramp back century-long efforts to increase the flow of traffic, and establish greater balance between humans and machines.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Traffic “
Introduction1. Mushrooms in Minsk
2. Speed Bumps in Twentieth Century Philosophy
3. Utopian Visions of Machines and People: A World Without Speed Bumps
4. Mumford and Moses
5. The Historical Concatenation of Congestion
6. Speed Bumpology
7. Crashworthy Automobiles as Speed Bumps
8. Race, Equality and Traffic
9. Pedestrian Malls as Large Scale Speed Bumps
10. The Woonerf: The Neighborhood Speed Bump
11. Taming Roads Themselves
12. Curb Cuts for People, Roundabouts for Automobiles
13. The Bicycle as a Neo-Luddite Traffic Solution
14. Gendered Speed Bumps
15. If Stopped in Traffic, Hope for a Crashworthy Automobile
16. Safety Delays in the Name of Freedom
17. Speed Bump Downsides
18. Waxing and Waning of Brazilian Speed Bumps
19. Potholes and Paper Money
20. Speed Bumps for Other Hopeful Technologies
Notes
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Josephson
Paul Josephson
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Josephson
- 2017, 192 Seiten, 10 Abbildungen, Maße: 11,8 x 16,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Christopher Schaberg, Ian Bogost
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 1501329332
- ISBN-13: 9781501329333
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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