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When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
The automobile, it seemed, had arrived in the nick of time to liberate cities from the tyranny of the horse. But how would people react to the coming of this new machine?
Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
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"motordom." Often they presented their position clothed in a rhetoric of freedom.9
Peter D. Norton • Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
But what of the road not taken? There was nothing inevitable about the way cars were adopted, first in America, and then by imitation in Europe and elsewhere. Are there other rules, and other ways of arranging urban spaces, that would have allowed cars to fit more smoothly into cities, rather than simply taking over the streets? Experiments in rece
... See moreTom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
The car had already cleaned up its once bloody reputation in cities, less by killing fewer people than by enlisting others to share the responsibility for the carnage.