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Riding the New York subway : the invention of the modern passenger / Stefan Hohne.

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A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride. When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, St...

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Main Author: Höhne, Stefan (Author)
Corporate Author: Recorded Books, Inc
Other title:New York City subway. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
Series:Infrastructures series.
Subjects:
Subways > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Urban transportation > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Subways > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Human-machine systems > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Subways.
Human-machine systems.
Subways > Social aspects.
Urban transportation.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Utopian Passengers
  • Machines and the Masses
  • Techniques of the Senses
  • Crisis and Critique
  • Strategies of Indignation
  • Subjects and Containers.

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