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Spaces of Congestion and Traffic

Author : David Rooney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429016468
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Congestion and Traffic written by David Rooney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a political history of urban traffic congestion in the twentieth century, and explores how and why experts from a range of professional disciplines have attempted to solve what they have called ‘the traffic problem’. It draws on case studies of historical traffic projects in London to trace the relationship among technologies, infrastructures, politics, and power on the capital’s congested streets. From the visions of urban planners to the concrete realities of engineers, and from the demands of traffic cops and economists to the new world of electronic surveillance, the book examines the political tensions embedded in the streets of our world cities. It also reveals the hand of capital in our traffic landscape. This book challenges conventional wisdom on urban traffic congestion, deploying a broad array of historical and material sources to tell a powerful account of how our cities work and why traffic remains such a problem. It is a welcome addition to literature on histories and geographies of urban mobility and will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of urban history, transport studies, historical geography, planning history, and the history of technology.

Interstate

Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337834
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Interstate written by Mark H. Rose and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars.

The Politics of Traffic Safety Education in the United States

Author : Bob J. Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Traffic Safety Education in the United States written by Bob J. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Policy and Political Institutions

Author : Frank Hendriks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy and Political Institutions written by Frank Hendriks and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To explore the impact of the new institutionalism in political science and public administration on "policy cultures," Hendriks (public administration, Tilburg U., the Netherlands) presents a comparative cultural-institutional analysis of traffic policy-making in Birmingham, UK and Munich, Germany. He provides evidence that political institutions influence the interaction between diverse views on car use policy issues, which in turn serve as vehicles (pun intended) shaping the course that policy processes take; and advocates "mobilizing bias" for policy-oriented learning in pluralistic democracies. Includes 1992 maps of the metropolitan area's road network for Birmingham and Munich, and maps of their respective city center roads. This is a translated, revised edition of the author's doctoral thesis (Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, 1996). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Still Stuck in Traffic

Author : Anthony Downs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815796558
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Still Stuck in Traffic written by Anthony Downs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-06-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money, and degrade the environment. Most Americans agree that traffic congestion is the major problem in their communities—and it only seems to be getting worse. In this revised and expanded edition of his landmark work Stuck in Traffic, Anthony Downs examines the benefits and costs of various anticongestion strategies. Drawing on a significant body of research by transportation experts and land-use planners, he counters environmentalists and road lobbyists alike by explaining why seemingly simple solutions, such as expanding public transit or expanding roads, have unintended consequences that cancel out their apparent advantages. He argues that while there might be some measurable gains from increasing housing densities, most other land-use strategies have little effect. Indeed, the most powerful solutions, including higher gasoline taxes, increased public funding for transit, and highway tolls, are also the least palatable politically. St ill Stuck in Traffic contains new material on the causes of congestion, its dynamics, and its relative incidence in various parts of the country. In clear and realistic terms, Downs seeks to explore why traffic congestion has become part of modern American life and how it can be kept under control.

Traffic, Environment, Politics

Author : Joop Schopman
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traffic, Environment, Politics written by Joop Schopman and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advance of motorized traffic has brought our attention to its disadvantages. Noise and exhaust gases do not just annoy people, they threaten human health and welfare. This book reports the scarcely available measurements of emissions to which adverse health effects are attributed. From these data it appears that although hardly any particular health effect can be scientifically proven to be caused by road traffic combined these effects strongly indicate that public health is endangered and action should be taken. The 1950-1980 efforts by the US government to formulate exhaust standards for cars are used to illustrate the political difficulties inherent in such undertaking.

The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility

Author : Alan Walks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317659686
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility written by Alan Walks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations? Can our cities be made more sustainable, and can environmental, economic and social collapse be staved off through changes in urban form and travel behaviour? How might rising indebtedness and the recent series of financial crises be related to automobile dependence and patterns of urban automobile use? To what extent does the system and economy of automobility factor in the production of urban socio-spatial inequalities, and how might these inequalities in mobility be understood and measured? What can we learn from the politics of mobility and social movements within cities? What is the role of automobility, and auto-dependence, in differentiating groups, both within cities and rural areas, and among transnational migrants moving across international borders? These are just some of the questions this book addresses. This volume provides a holistic and reflexive account of the role played by automobility in producing, reproducing, and differentiating social, economic and political life in the contemporary city, as well as the role played by the city in producing and reproducing auto-mobile inequalities. The first section, titled Driving Vulnerability, deals with issues of global importance related to economic, social, financial, and environmental sustainability and resilience, and socialization. The second section, Driving Inequality, is concerned with understanding the role played by automobility in producing urban socio-spatial inequalities, including those rooted in accessibility to work, migration status and ethnic concentration, and new measures of mobility-based inequality derived from the concept of effective speed. The third section, titled, Driving Politics, explores the politics of mobility in particular places, with an eye to demonstrating both the relevance of the politics of mobility for influencing and reinforcing actually existing neoliberalisms, and the kinds of politics that might allow for reform or restructuring of the auto-mobile city into one that is more socially, politically and environmentally just. In the conclusion to the book Walks draws on the findings of the other chapters to comment on the relationship between automobility, neoliberalism and citizenship, and to lay out strategies for dealing with the urban car system.

The Politics of Trafficking

Author : Stephanie Limoncelli
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477417X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Trafficking written by Stephanie Limoncelli and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex trafficking is not a recent phenomenon. Over 100 years ago, the first international traffic in women for prostitution emerged, prompting a worldwide effort to combat it. The Politics of Trafficking provides a unique look at the history of that first anti-trafficking movement, illuminating the role gender, sexuality, and national interests play in international politics. Initially conceived as a global humanitarian effort to protect women from sexual exploitation, the movement's feminist-inspired vision failed to achieve its universal goal and gradually gave way to nationalist concerns over "undesirable" migrants and state control over women themselves. Addressing an issue that is still of great concern today, this book sheds light on the ability of international non-governmental organizations to challenge state power, the motivations for state involvement in humanitarian issues pertaining to women, and the importance of gender and sexuality to state officials engaged in nation building.

Rites of Way

Author : Alan Lupo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Rites of Way written by Alan Lupo and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of locating Boston's Inner Belt freeway, with review of urban transportation planning and decisionmaking in U.S. cities.

Highways to Nowhere

Author : Richard Hébert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Highways to Nowhere written by Richard Hébert and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of urban transportation planning and development in Flint, Dayton, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

Snarl

Author : Ruth A. Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472029509
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Snarl written by Ruth A. Miller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth A. Miller excavates a centuries-old history of nonhuman and nonbiological constitutional engagement and outlines a robust mechanical democracy that challenges existing theories of liberal and human political participation. Drawing on an eclectic set of legal, political, and automotive texts from France, Turkey, and the United States, she proposes a radical mechanical re-articulation of three of the most basic principles of democracy: vitality, mobility, and liberty. Rather than defending a grand theory of materialist or posthumanist politics, or addressing abstract concepts or “things” writ large, Miller invites readers into a self-contained history of constitutionalism situated in a focused discussion of automobile traffic congestion in Paris, Istanbul, and Boston. Within the mechanical public sphere created by automotive space, Snarl finds a model of democratic politics that transforms our most fundamental assumptions about the nature, and constitutional potential, of life, movement, and freedom.

Highway Madness!

Author : Renée Marie Blackburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Highway Madness! written by Renée Marie Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern U.S. traffic safety policy is largely guided by three overarching principles that have influenced governments, industry, and community and citizen activists since the 1940s. The terms, education, engineering, and enforcement, detailed in the Action Program for Traffic Safety were developed by engineers and U.S. federal government traffic safety experts in response to growing concerns around rising traffic fatalities. In these guidelines, and the iterations that developed from them, responsibility for traffic safety shifted between drivers, policy makers, and the automotive industry. My dissertation examines the evolution of traffic safety policy, specifically looking at solutions to reach zero fatalities, over multiple decades. The traffic safety experts, including the auto industry, federal government, and community activists, striving for zero fatalities have reshaped traffic infrastructure, automotive regulation, and consumer perceptions of risky behaviors in an attempt to solve a major public health issue. Broadly following four themes, infrastructure, institutions, technology, and behavior, each chapter highlights how these actors mitigated risks and defined safety in order to find solutions to highway fatalities. To safety-concerned government officials and industry leaders, central actors in the development of federal traffic safety policy, traffic safety encompassed engineering, education, enforcement, citizenship, humanitarian, and moral issues. On the other hand, to women's community and activist groups, like MADD, traffic safety's focus was the education of drivers and pedestrians, and the prevention of crashes through educational and public health approaches. However, to working class white males, government mandated safety was viewed as an infringement upon their freedom as individuals to choose how to be safe and how to define their level of safety, regardless of its effects on others. Through analysis of these narratives emerges a more complete picture of the public health, education, and social policy implications of twentieth century traffic safety, the role of citizen activism in traffic safety policy development at the local, state, and federal levels, and the ways in which the traffic safety solutions have shifted over time.

May All Your Traffic Lights Be Green.

Author : Michael Mathiesen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505283891
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book May All Your Traffic Lights Be Green. written by Michael Mathiesen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if all the Traffic Lights you encounter for the rest of your life would always turn to Green as you approached the intersection? First of all - you would think it was your lucky day. Next, you'd wonder how they did that. Next you'd wonder why the government couldn't do more things right like this. This book is not really about how to get all your traffic lights to go Green as you approach, but is a road map to how to make all the government rules and regulations work for us at all times, not only in the way that our Traffic Lights work. In the age of small and cheap computer chips, it's actually quite easy to make all the traffic lights to accommodate a more efficient flow of traffic thus saving America millions of barrels of oil per day and saving you the driver hundreds of dollars a year and with far less frustration as you maneuver through the traffic. The author explains that the only reason our traffic system is so broken is because decisions about what to do for the average citizen and how to do them is left in the hands of the few and the bribed. Could there be a better way so that all of our traffic lights turn green as we approached the intersections, but more importantly every aspect of our lives might be improved by using a new approach to democracy, putting the technology of the Internet to work for us and VOTING ONLINE in what would be the world's first Direct Democracy. This book also details the one major over-arching solution to all the world's problems - putting all or most of our decision-making on the Internet where the majority of us can vote directly on simple solutions like this one, making traffic lights stay green longer. That's just the beginning of what we can do - if we want to. This book has many more examples of how and why we can and must use our technical know-how to save lives, save money, save time, save our country and then later the world.

The Traffic Outrage

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The Traffic Outrage written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Suspect Citizens

Author : Frank R. Baumgartner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108575994
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Suspect Citizens written by Frank R. Baumgartner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated.

The Traffic Power Structure

Author : Planka.nu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629632971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book The Traffic Power Structure written by Planka.nu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a manifesto penned by the Sweden-based activist network Planka.nu, offering a critique of the automobile society, analyzing the connections between traffic, the environment, and class, and outlines its political vision. The topics explored along the way include Bruce Springsteen, science fiction magazines, high-speed trains, nuclear power, the security-industrial complex, happiness research, and volcano eruptions. --From publisher description.

Transportation as a Political Issue

Author : Joop Schopman
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Transportation as a Political Issue written by Joop Schopman and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the problems and the measures taken to address land transportation as a major political issue.