http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Invention of Jaywalking Was a Massive Shaming Campaign en Sun, 17 May 2026 19:05:02 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11194#post-125825 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:39:44 +0000 wingpig 125825@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sound possible, along with the playparks-were-the-invention-of-the-motor-industry thing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11194#post-125824 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:54:43 +0000 PS 125824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was this not mentioned in Copenhagenize's talk at the Ed Fest of cycling? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11194#post-125769 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:56:14 +0000 cb 125769@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-was-a-massive-shaming-campa-858926923">http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-was-a-massive-shaming-campa-858926923</a></p> <p>"<br /> "before the city street could be physically reconstructed to accommodate motor vehicles, it had first to be socially reconstructed as a modern thoroughfare." And that social reconstruction meant redefining who belonged on the street, by poking fun at those who were seen as unwanted. This ridicule would show up in newspaper editorials, in verbal confrontations between motorists and pedestrians on the street, in American classrooms, and through public shaming by police officers and other authority figures.<br /> " </p>