Traffic

Tom Vanderbilt

RRP: £20.00

Publisher: ALLEN LANE

Publication Date : 28/08/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

This book plunges head-on into traffic, not simply as a social ill or as a design problem, but as a leading cultural indicator in a living, organic model of what physicists call 'emergent collective behaviour'. It asks questions such as why the other lane always seem to be moving faster, and whether the road mirrors society or whether we turn into our alter egos when we get in our cars. Will appeal to fans of "Top Gear" and readers of "Blink" and "Freakonomics".

Publisher's description:

Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? Why are people so different inside their cars than they are outside them? This book explains why traffic problems are really people problems. It shows that how we behave walking the streets, on our bikes, and in our cars is an astonishing cultural indicator.

ISBN: 9780713999310