Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Stabilizing Mobility -- Part 1. Transportation As Antidote to Modern City -- Chapter 1. The Trolley, the Automobile, and Autonomy -- Chapter 2. Townless Highways and Highwayless Towns -- Part 2. German Critical Theory Meets American Cartopia -- Chapter 4. Film Noir and the Hidden Violence of Transportation in Los Angeles -- Chapter 3. The Building of a Superhighway Future at the New York World's Fair -- Part 3. The Public's Fears of Urban Gridlock -- Chapter 5. Stories of the MTA: Contesting Meanings of Subway Space -- Chapter 6. Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the Armored Automobile -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.