tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734645058271734681.post1047882193959586383..comments2024-03-26T08:42:50.357-07:00Comments on One Baha'i's approach...: 11Meadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02046847133963919765noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734645058271734681.post-66058242754416482352015-02-22T20:26:55.609-08:002015-02-22T20:26:55.609-08:00Thanks Paul.
I think I may have used the wrong wo...Thanks Paul.<br /><br />I think I may have used the wrong word there. Perhaps "oversight", rather than "error". I believe you are correct in your use of this example as indicating a deliberate social, as well as physical, change that occurred, but I believe it goes back much further than Norton gives credit.<br /><br />In many societies there was already a sense of the elite having the "right" of the road. I believe it was a small step to transferring that feeling to cars, and not as drastic as Norton conveys. But it was deliberate, and it could be seen as an infringement. Either way, I do think it is an oversight to imply that it is a new phenomenon. And there are some who would unfairly dismiss much more of your work for so simple a thing. My argument here is that it is irrelevant and should not be seen as indicative of any other problems with your work, for within the context of the modern changing of the right of way on the roads, you are spot on.Meadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02046847133963919765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734645058271734681.post-18118265526591745132015-02-22T18:19:14.135-08:002015-02-22T18:19:14.135-08:00Thanks a lot for the generous review. Re cars domi...Thanks a lot for the generous review. Re cars dominating streets, not sure what you see as an error. This is well document in Peter Norton's Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fighting-traffic a scholarly book. "Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution."Paul Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570919098165019169noreply@blogger.com