Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street

摘要

Bessie Buckley was distressed. Street accidents were maiming and killing city residents—especially children. The Milwaukee schoolteacher wrote a letter to the editor of her newspaper. "Are streets for commercial and pleasure traffic alone?" she asked. In the American cities of 1920, the question was far from settled. Who belongs in city streets? Who does not belong? What are streets for?