Watching the Traffic Go By : : Transportation and Isolation in Urban America / / Paul Mason Fotsch.
As twentieth-century city planners invested in new transportation systems to deal with urban growth, they ensured that the automobile rather than mass transit would dominate transportation. Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch shows h...
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Fotsch, Paul Mason, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Watching the Traffic Go By : Transportation and Isolation in Urban America / Paul Mason Fotsch. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2007 1 online resource (254 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- 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 3. The Building of a Superhighway Future at the New York World’s Fair -- Chapter 4. Film Noir and the Hidden Violence of Transportation in Los Angeles -- Part 3. The public’s fears of urban gridlock -- Chapter 5. Stories of the MTA: Contesting Meanings of Subway Spa -- Chapter 6. Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the Armored Automobile -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As twentieth-century city planners invested in new transportation systems to deal with urban growth, they ensured that the automobile rather than mass transit would dominate transportation. Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch shows how our urban infrastructure developed and how it has shaped American culture ever since. Watching the Traffic Go By emphasizes the narratives underlying our perceptions of innovations in transportation by looking at the stories we have built around these innovations. Fotsch finds such stories in the General Motors "Futurama" exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair, debates in Munsey's magazine, films such as Double Indemnity, and even in footage of the O. J. Simpson chase along Los Angeles freeways. Juxtaposed with contemporaneous critiques by Lewis Mumford, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer, Fotsch argues that these narratives celebrated new technologies that fostered stability for business and the white middle class. At the same time, transportation became another system of excluding women and the poor, especially African Americans, by isolating them in homes and urban ghettos. A timely, interdisciplinary analysis, Watching the Traffic Go By exposes the ugly side of transportation politics through the seldom-used lens of popular culture. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) City and town life United States. Popular culture United States. Transportation engineering United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/714250 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292795358 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292795358/original |
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Frontmatter -- 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 3. The Building of a Superhighway Future at the New York World’s Fair -- Chapter 4. Film Noir and the Hidden Violence of Transportation in Los Angeles -- Part 3. The public’s fears of urban gridlock -- Chapter 5. Stories of the MTA: Contesting Meanings of Subway Spa -- Chapter 6. Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the Armored Automobile -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- 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 3. The Building of a Superhighway Future at the New York World’s Fair -- Chapter 4. Film Noir and the Hidden Violence of Transportation in Los Angeles -- Part 3. The public’s fears of urban gridlock -- Chapter 5. Stories of the MTA: Contesting Meanings of Subway Spa -- Chapter 6. Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the Armored Automobile -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
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