Cultures of Control

Levin, Miriam R.

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“…Traffic lights were examples of a wider tendency, which Miriam Levin has identified as a post-war expansion of "decision-making machines" aimed at "regulating circulation in all mechanistic systems". 13 How did this systemisation impact mobility practices? In the words of urban historian Clay McShane, traffic lights are part of a system that "attempts to impose a strong social control over the most fundamental of human behaviour, whether to move or to be still".…”

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Challenging the system: Pedestrian sovereignty in the early systemisation of city traffic in Stockholm, ca. 1945–1955

Emanuel

2021

The Journal of Transport History

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This article probes the duality of marginalisation yet omnipresence of walking in cities. Using innovation in traffic light technology in Stockholm as a case study, it seeks to understand the attempts to regulate and safeguard pedestrians in the first decade after the Second World War. The article argues that traffic lights and other technologies were part of experts’ efforts to make urban mobility “systemic”, linking streets with vehicles and road users with the aim to optimize traffic. In doing so, their approach to pedestrian control was ambiguous. On the one hand, experts wanted to fit pedestrians into the emerging city traffic system: make them predictable, while also seeing to their safety. On the other hand, their designs and corresponding legislation often accepted pedestrian sovereignty, and walking was not systemised in Stockholm during the period studied here.

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Challenging the system: Pedestrian sovereignty in the early systemisation of city traffic in Stockholm, ca. 1945–1955

Emanuel

2021

The Journal of Transport History

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Organization and Mathematics: A Look into the Prehistory of Industrial Engineering

Gasca¹

2004

Technological Concepts and Mathematical Models in the Evolution of Modern Engineering Systems

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The Architecture of Control: a Chinese Strategy for e-Governance

Kluver

2005

J. Pub. Pol.

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The rapid development of the Peoples' Republic of China has put increasing strains on an overwhelmed administrative and bureaucratic structure that was already hobbled by persistent inefficiency and corruption. In addition to anti-corruption and professionalization campaigns, the government has devised a system of e-governance with the goal of adding stability and order to a chaotic governing process. This includes re-establishing the control of the governing authorities, including improving the quality of surveillance and data gathering and hence policy-making; the elimination of corruption; and ultimately, the re-legitimation of the Communist Party of China. This paper discusses the critical administrative and political problems facing the government, demonstrates ways in which e-government has been designed to meet these, and discusses the problems presented by a reliance on e-government in a developing country.

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Cultures of Control

Cited by 11 publications

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Challenging the system: Pedestrian sovereignty in the early systemisation of city traffic in Stockholm, ca. 1945–1955

Challenging the system: Pedestrian sovereignty in the early systemisation of city traffic in Stockholm, ca. 1945–1955

Organization and Mathematics: A Look into the Prehistory of Industrial Engineering

The Architecture of Control: a Chinese Strategy for e-Governance

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