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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262363259
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, Stefan Höhne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. Höhne argues that underground transportation—which early passengers found both exhilarating and distressing—changed perceptions, interactions, and the organization of everyday life. Over the decades, discourses surrounding the subway system shaped passengers alternately as progressive heroes, fragile cargo, barbarians, patriots, or vigilantes. At the same time, authorities saw passengers as undisciplined masses posing a threat to order. Höhne investigates how authorities attempted to control passenger behavior with rules and regulations in an effort to ensure efficiency in transit. Meanwhile, passengers asserted their individuality by resisting imposed norms and inventing subversive practices. Critically engaging with the work of Michel Foucault and other theorists, Höhne maps the subway–passenger relationship from the system's inception to its 1968 consolidation into the Metropolitan Transit Authority, as the subway—once a monument to progress—became a neglected infrastructure plagued by crime and fear. Höhne shows that throughout the course of the twentieth century, New York City subway passengers struggled to navigate the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262363259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 February 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11952.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262363259
Book: Bicycling Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11660.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262357531
Book: Bicycling Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11660.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262357531
Book: Bicycling Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11660.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262357531
Book: Bicycling Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11660.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262357531
Book: Bicycling Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11660.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262357531
Book: Bicycling Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11660.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262357531
Book: Bicycling Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11660.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262357531