Traffic
By: Paul Josephson
Series: Object lessons; Object lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781501329333
Subjects: Popular works; Traffic engineering; Traffic calming
Description: ix, 178 pages : 17 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mushrooms in Minsk; title: Speed bumps in twentieth century philosophy; title: Utopian visions of machines and people : a world without speed bumps; title: Mumford and Moses; title: The historical concatenation of congestion; title: Speed bumpology; title: Crashworthy automobiles as speed bumps; title: Race, equality and traffic; title: Pedestrian malls as large scale speed bumps; title: The woonerf : the neighborhood speed bump; title: Taming roads themselves; title: Curb cuts for people, roundabouts for automobiles; title: The bicycle as a neo-luddite traffic solution; title: Gendered speed bumps; title: If stopped in traffic, hope for a crashworthy automobile; title: Safety delays in the name of freedom; title: Speed bump downsides; title: Waxing and waning of Brazilian speed bumps; title: Potholes and paper money; title: Speed bumps for other hopeful technologies.