Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Peter Norton
Technology historian and assistant professor at the University of Virginia, Peter Norton, will present this fall’s Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture. He is the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (MIT Press, 2008), which contends that the motor age came to the city only after a tumultuous struggle involving pedestrians, parents, auto clubs, street railways, and other groups with conflicting perceptions about what streets are for.