I read a few excerpts from a book in college that seems to cover the transition you're talking about. It's Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. I read the parts about corporations working to create the term jay-walking and establish it as a crime both legally and in public perception.
Just as a note horses as transportation in cities didn't lead to clean air by any means.
Many major cities has horse manure problems (along with problems of
CW Animal abuse
horses being murdered and left to rot in the street
)
There was a market for cars (or at the very least horse alternatives), but it should have been public transportation instead of individualized vehicles. That's where the real evil/shittyness comes from.
My annual reminder for people to watch Taken for a Ride: The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century. Really good PBS doc about exactly what you're talking about.
Serious debate was held in courtrooms and in editorials over whether the automobile was inherently evil.
After World War I, as accidents continued to soar, drivers were being labeled in newspapers as "remorseless murderers," their danger to public safety likened to an epidemic disease. In Detroit and other cities angry mobs were dragging reckless drivers out of cars.
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I read a few excerpts from a book in college that seems to cover the transition you're talking about. It's Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. I read the parts about corporations working to create the term jay-walking and establish it as a crime both legally and in public perception.
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That's a great book
Just as a note horses as transportation in cities didn't lead to clean air by any means.
Many major cities has horse manure problems (along with problems of
CW Animal abuse
horses being murdered and left to rot in the street
)
There was a market for cars (or at the very least horse alternatives), but it should have been public transportation instead of individualized vehicles. That's where the real evil/shittyness comes from.
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All good. I spent a lot of time around horses as a kid and never thought about it until I read about it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo&t=797s
This one
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And that hellish diorama? It grew to became known as Brasilia
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Check ClimateTown videos, I saw a video exactly about what you are asking
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4&t=3s&ab_channel=PEACEREBEL
My annual reminder for people to watch Taken for a Ride: The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century. Really good PBS doc about exactly what you're talking about.
cw: bloodbath caused by cars
https://archive.is/22mfs