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The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic

Who reads Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)?

Author

Peter D. Norton, Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, Trevor Pinch

Publisher

The MIT Press; MIT Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262141000

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, Mathematics, Business

Rating

4.15 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14