Right of way : race, class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in America / Angie Schmitt.
Right of way : race, class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in America / Angie Schmitt.
Right of way : race, class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in America / Angie Schmitt.
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Washington, DC : Island Press, [2020]
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G 2021/1230
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English
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xiv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: outline of an epidemic -- The geography of risk -- The profile of a victim -- Blaming the victim -- The criminalization of walking -- Killer cars -- The ideology of flow -- A hard right turn -- Pedestrian safety on the technological frontier -- The international context -- Families for...
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Washington, DC : Island Press, [2020]
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District of Columbia
Date Published
[2020]
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In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows that pedestrian traffic deaths are not unavoidable "accidents." They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to sol...
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Right of way : race, class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in America / Angie Schmitt.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-227).
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©2020
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G 2021/1230
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74VKa3PZg7oX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa3PZg7oX
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ISBN
1642830836
9781642830835
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363.125
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991024404421402626
