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Urban Travel Before the Trolley -- 2. Animal Power, -- 4. The Uses and Abuses of Streets -- 5. The Failure of the Steam Automobile -- 6. Gender Wars -- 9. Red Light, Green Light -- The Motor Boys Rebuild Cities Imagine a world without automobiles, traffic lights, and interstate highways. Or the words commuter and parking. For a nation that prides itself on the freedom of movement and the long weekend, this seems nearly impossible.

Writing at the cutting edge of urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems - most important, the private automobile - and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America. We swiftly motor across the country from Boston to New York to Milwaukee to Los Angeles and the suburbs in between as McShane chronicles the urban embrace of the automobile McShane begins with mid-nineteenth-century municipal bans on horseless carriages, a response to public fears of accidents and pollution.

After cities redesigned roads to encourage new forms of transport, especially trolley cars, light carriages, and bicycles, the bans disappeared in the s. With the advent of the automobile, metropolitan elites quickly and permanently established cars as status symbols.