Peter D Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1469025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter D Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter D |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON P D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7210-4357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Policing the Open Road
Reviewed by: Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo Peter Norton (bio) Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom By Sarah A. Seo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom By Sarah A. Seo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. It's a familiar paradox: the automobile is both a token of personal fr…
Urban Transport and Mobility in Technology and Culture
Urban Transport and Mobility in Technology and Culture Peter Norton (bio) In the quest for a more sustainable future, we have much to learn from relatively sustainable practices of the past. In January 2020, Technology and Culture published "Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Present, Past, and Future," by Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, and Ruth Oldenziel.1 The authors distilled the conclusions of a series of workshops in the history and future o…
Introduction
Walking is a neglected topic in the history of transport and mobility in cities. The four articles in this special section demonstrate the importance of travel on foot in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities in four different countries, and reveal the ways in which pedestrian mobility has persisted despite the development of a car-dominated society. Together they provide important new evidence on a neglected topic and hopefully pave the way f…
Persistent pedestrianism
Generalizations about ‘car culture’ in the United States, and about American's ‘love affair with the automobile’, have concealed persistent values and practices among millions of Americans that do not suit such stereotypes. Car culture and the car's attractions are not denied. American society, however, is a complex of numerous subcultures, including many that resented and resisted the automobile's growing priority during the twentieth century. S…
Four Paradigms
Traffic safety, once neglected within the larger history of the automobile in the United States, has finally been getting the attention it always deserved. Nevertheless, historians still sometimes misappraise traffic safety in one era by the standards of another. Ahistorical assumptions have contributed to misinterpretations-for example, that Americans of the 1920s were extraordinarily tolerant of traffic casualties because they did not respond t…
The World beyond the Windshield
Reviewed by: The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe Peter D. Norton (bio) The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Edited by Christ of Mauch and Thomas Zeller. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. xv+283. $49.95/$22.95. Just as Christ of Mauch and Thomas Zeller claim, the contributors to this anthology “teach us . . . to read the world beyond the wind…
Fighting Traffic
This richly researched monograph contributes much to our understanding of the condition of modern urban America. Peter D. Norton, a historian of American technology, reminds us that Americans have lived with urban traffic issues for more than a century. By 1930, when nearly 30 million automobiles were registered, traditional two-way city streets began to give way to four- and six-lane boulevards. In 1956 the Eisenhower administration proposed a g…
Fighting Traffic
Fighting Traffic Peter D. Norton (bio) and Bruce Epperson (bio) To the Editor I have no wish to question Bruce Epperson's overall assessment of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (January 2009, pp. 235–37), but I believe readers of Technology and Culture deserve corrections of three important errors in Mr. Epperson's review. First, the reviewer alleges that the book attributes the transformation of the city street "t…
Fighting Traffic
"Fighting Traffic" published on by The MIT Press.
Street Rivals
Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong. Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists' claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership. Ep…
Street Rivals
Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong. Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists' claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership. Ep…
Persistent pedestrianism
Generalizations about ‘car culture’ in the United States, and about American's ‘love affair with the automobile’, have concealed persistent values and practices among millions of Americans that do not suit such stereotypes. Car culture and the car's attractions are not denied. American society, however, is a complex of numerous subcultures, including many that resented and resisted the automobile's growing priority during the twentieth century. S…
Four Paradigms
Traffic safety, once neglected within the larger history of the automobile in the United States, has finally been getting the attention it always deserved. Nevertheless, historians still sometimes misappraise traffic safety in one era by the standards of another. Ahistorical assumptions have contributed to misinterpretations-for example, that Americans of the 1920s were extraordinarily tolerant of traffic casualties because they did not respond t…
Fighting Traffic
This richly researched monograph contributes much to our understanding of the condition of modern urban America. Peter D. Norton, a historian of American technology, reminds us that Americans have lived with urban traffic issues for more than a century. By 1930, when nearly 30 million automobiles were registered, traditional two-way city streets began to give way to four- and six-lane boulevards. In 1956 the Eisenhower administration proposed a g…
Introduction
Walking is a neglected topic in the history of transport and mobility in cities. The four articles in this special section demonstrate the importance of travel on foot in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities in four different countries, and reveal the ways in which pedestrian mobility has persisted despite the development of a car-dominated society. Together they provide important new evidence on a neglected topic and hopefully pave the way f…
Street Rivals
Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong. Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists' claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership. Ep…
Fighting Traffic
"Fighting Traffic" published on by The MIT Press.
The World beyond the Windshield
Reviewed by: The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe Peter D. Norton (bio) The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Edited by Christ of Mauch and Thomas Zeller. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. xv+283. $49.95/$22.95. Just as Christ of Mauch and Thomas Zeller claim, the contributors to this anthology “teach us . . . to read the world beyond the wind…
Fighting Traffic
This richly researched monograph contributes much to our understanding of the condition of modern urban America. Peter D. Norton, a historian of American technology, reminds us that Americans have lived with urban traffic issues for more than a century. By 1930, when nearly 30 million automobiles were registered, traditional two-way city streets began to give way to four- and six-lane boulevards. In 1956 the Eisenhower administration proposed a g…
Fighting Traffic
Fighting Traffic Peter D. Norton (bio) and Bruce Epperson (bio) To the Editor I have no wish to question Bruce Epperson's overall assessment of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (January 2009, pp. 235–37), but I believe readers of Technology and Culture deserve corrections of three important errors in Mr. Epperson's review. First, the reviewer alleges that the book attributes the transformation of the city street "t…
Four Paradigms
Traffic safety, once neglected within the larger history of the automobile in the United States, has finally been getting the attention it always deserved. Nevertheless, historians still sometimes misappraise traffic safety in one era by the standards of another. Ahistorical assumptions have contributed to misinterpretations-for example, that Americans of the 1920s were extraordinarily tolerant of traffic casualties because they did not respond t…
Introduction
Walking is a neglected topic in the history of transport and mobility in cities. The four articles in this special section demonstrate the importance of travel on foot in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities in four different countries, and reveal the ways in which pedestrian mobility has persisted despite the development of a car-dominated society. Together they provide important new evidence on a neglected topic and hopefully pave the way f…
Persistent pedestrianism
Generalizations about ‘car culture’ in the United States, and about American's ‘love affair with the automobile’, have concealed persistent values and practices among millions of Americans that do not suit such stereotypes. Car culture and the car's attractions are not denied. American society, however, is a complex of numerous subcultures, including many that resented and resisted the automobile's growing priority during the twentieth century. S…
Urban Transport and Mobility in Technology and Culture
Urban Transport and Mobility in Technology and Culture Peter Norton (bio) In the quest for a more sustainable future, we have much to learn from relatively sustainable practices of the past. In January 2020, Technology and Culture published "Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Present, Past, and Future," by Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, and Ruth Oldenziel.1 The authors distilled the conclusions of a series of workshops in the history and future o…
Policing the Open Road
Reviewed by: Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo Peter Norton (bio) Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom By Sarah A. Seo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom By Sarah A. Seo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. It's a familiar paradox: the automobile is both a token of personal fr…
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