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- Title
Spaces of Congestion and Traffic: Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London.
- Authors
Ellis, D.J.
- Abstract
Rooney investigates the influence of policing ideas on the traffic problem through the work of Alker Tripp, Metropolitan Police traffic commissioner between 1932 and 1947. While planners and politicians tended to view traffic congestion as the product of inadequate infrastructure, economists characterized traffic congestion as an instance of market failure. Rooney deconstructs and contextualizes the various discourses of traffic that circulated in twentieth-century London to show that debates about traffic congestion were proxies for contests between different ideological and professional groups over wider political and socio-economic issues.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); TRAFFIC congestion; CITY traffic; TWENTIETH century; TRAFFIC cameras; TRAFFIC conflicts; ROAD users
- Publication
Urban History, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 4, p765
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926821000614