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Author Fotsch, Paul Mason, 1965-

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

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 240 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Transportation engineering -- United States.
City and town life -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292714250 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292714254 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292714267 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292714262 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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