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Watching the traffic go by [electronic resource] : transportation and isolation in urban America / Paul Mason Fotsch.

By: Fotsch, Paul Mason, 1965-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007Edition: 1st ed.Description: xi, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Transportation engineering -- United States | City and town life -- United States | Popular culture -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 388.40973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The trolley, the automobile, and autonomy -- Townless highways and highwayless towns -- The building of a superhighway future at the New York World's Fair -- Film noir and the hidden violence of transportation in Los Angeles -- Stories of the MTA: contesting meanings of subway space -- Urban freeway stories: racial politics and the armored automobile.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index.

The trolley, the automobile, and autonomy -- Townless highways and highwayless towns -- The building of a superhighway future at the New York World's Fair -- Film noir and the hidden violence of transportation in Los Angeles -- Stories of the MTA: contesting meanings of subway space -- Urban freeway stories: racial politics and the armored automobile.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.