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Traffic

Josephson, Paul
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501329333
Publisert
2017-03-09
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
180 gr
Høyde
164 mm
Bredde
118 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Josephson, Paul

Biografisk notat

Paul Josephson is Professor of History at Colby College, USA. He is the author of twelve books, including Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans (2015), The Conquest of the Russian Arctic (2014), Lenin’s Laureate: A Life in Communist Science (2010), Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism Under Socialism (2009), and Motorized Obsession: Life, Liberty and the Small Bore Engine (2007).

Traffic

Josephson, Paul
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Josephson, Paul
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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<i>Traffic</i> is both insightful and entertaining. Based on a range of sources, it provides us with a fuller understanding of the methods by which we might be able to control the negative effects of the automobile on our cities.

Joel A. Tarr, Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Paul Josephson, with deft humor and brilliance, shines a spotlight on one of the simplest and most unassuming cures for our traffic ills—the speed bump. That invention is not the new, new thing, like Uber, autonomous vehicles, and paying for transit with your smart phone. The speed bump is tried and true, and represents much more than a lump of pavement. Its very idea is the way we <i>must </i>design the cities of the future for people and not just automobiles.

Lois DeMeester, CEO and Founder of Mobility Lab

These Object Lessons books are interesting little in-depth examinations and philosophical treatises on objects as disparate as cigarette lighters, hotels, questionnaires, eggs, drones, golf balls, shipping containers, and waste. Like many of the other authors in the series, Paul Josephson, through humor and intelligence, offers great insight. He makes reading about traffic much more pleasant than being stuck in it.

Lit Hub

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.

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Introduction
1. 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

Les mer
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.
Les mer
The Object Lessons series, published in association with The Atlantic, explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and shows how everyday objects can teach us about ourselves and the modern world
Les mer
Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation—and from that starting point explores the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Featuring contributions from writers, artists, scholars, journalists, and others, the emphasis throughout is lucid writing, imagination, and brevity. Object Lessons paints a picture of the world around us, and tells the story of how we got here, one object at a time.
Les mer

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<i>Traffic</i> is both insightful and entertaining. Based on a range of sources, it provides us with a fuller understanding of the methods by which we might be able to control the negative effects of the automobile on our cities.

Joel A. Tarr, Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Paul Josephson, with deft humor and brilliance, shines a spotlight on one of the simplest and most unassuming cures for our traffic ills—the speed bump. That invention is not the new, new thing, like Uber, autonomous vehicles, and paying for transit with your smart phone. The speed bump is tried and true, and represents much more than a lump of pavement. Its very idea is the way we <i>must </i>design the cities of the future for people and not just automobiles.

Lois DeMeester, CEO and Founder of Mobility Lab

These Object Lessons books are interesting little in-depth examinations and philosophical treatises on objects as disparate as cigarette lighters, hotels, questionnaires, eggs, drones, golf balls, shipping containers, and waste. Like many of the other authors in the series, Paul Josephson, through humor and intelligence, offers great insight. He makes reading about traffic much more pleasant than being stuck in it.

Lit Hub

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.

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Introduction
1. 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

Les mer
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.
Les mer
The Object Lessons series, published in association with The Atlantic, explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and shows how everyday objects can teach us about ourselves and the modern world
Les mer
Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation—and from that starting point explores the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Featuring contributions from writers, artists, scholars, journalists, and others, the emphasis throughout is lucid writing, imagination, and brevity. Object Lessons paints a picture of the world around us, and tells the story of how we got here, one object at a time.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501329333
Publisert
2017-03-09
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
180 gr
Høyde
164 mm
Bredde
118 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Josephson, Paul

Biografisk notat

Paul Josephson is Professor of History at Colby College, USA. He is the author of twelve books, including Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans (2015), The Conquest of the Russian Arctic (2014), Lenin’s Laureate: A Life in Communist Science (2010), Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism Under Socialism (2009), and Motorized Obsession: Life, Liberty and the Small Bore Engine (2007).

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