Automobility And The City In Twentieth Century Britain And Japan
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Author |
: Simon Gunn |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2019-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350075948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350075949 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan by : Simon Gunn
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment (the M/E dilemma); and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. The result is the first comparative history of mass automobility and its environmental consequences between East and West.
Author |
: Simon Gunn |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2019-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350075955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350075957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan by : Simon Gunn
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment (the M/E dilemma); and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. The result is the first comparative history of mass automobility and its environmental consequences between East and West.
Author |
: Ole B. Jensen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2020-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351058735 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351058738 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of Urban Mobilities by : Ole B. Jensen
This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and ‘the urban’ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe and analyse the world of urban mobilities. The Handbook of Urban Mobilities facilitates the understanding of urban mobilities within a historic conscience of societal transformation. It explores key concepts and theories within the ‘mobilities turn’ with a particular urban framework, as well as the methods and tools at play when empirical, urban mobilities research is undertaken. This book also explores the urban mobilities practices related to commutes; particular modes of moving; the exploration of everyday life and embodied practices as they manifest themselves within urban mobilities; and the themes of power, conflict, and social exclusion. A discussion of urban planning, public control, and governance is also undertaken in the book, wherein the themes of infrastructures, technologies and design are duly considered. With chapters written in an accessible style, this handbook carries timely contributions within the contemporary state of the art of urban mobilities research. It will thus be useful for academics and students of graduate programmes and post-graduate studies within disciplines such as urban geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, urban planning, traffic and transportation planning, and architecture and urban design.
Author |
: Colin G. Pooley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556036461465 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Mobile Century? by : Colin G. Pooley
Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have changed over time. This book provides a detailed empirical analysis of mobility change in Britain over the twentieth century.
Author |
: David Thoms |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351885461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351885464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Motor Car and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century by : David Thoms
This is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the motor car and popular culture in the 20th century, which brings together original essays by academics in the UK, North America and Australia. The contributors write from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including semiotics, social history, literary and film criticism, and musicology. Three main themes are addressed: the car as a cultural image; its impact on leisure and entertainment; and the cultural significance of the processes of manufacturing and selling cars.
Author |
: H. J. Perkin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2016-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1911204203 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781911204206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Age of the Automobile by : H. J. Perkin
This lively work offers a wide-ranging account of the social history of the motorised age, and of the machine which has reshaped the character and development of the modern world. It places the development of the car (and of its more sinister cousins the tank and the war plane) in their context and impact on society in peace and war from the Edwardian period onwards. The author shows that automobiles in particular represented a modernity which promised to the individual power over time, space, and their own personal machine. They were emblems, too, of sex appeal, and of the new consumerism. They were prismatic of modern society itself, and a futuristic key to its social history. And as they came down in price over time they opened up the world anew to the middle and then the working class. This is a social history of modern Britain at its most focussed, on issues that really matter.
Author |
: Peter E. S. Freund |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015034410194 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ecology of the Automobile by : Peter E. S. Freund
Examines the central role that auto production and consumption have played in the twentieth century: as a technological system with major impacts on public policy, land use, cultural patterns, social relations, community, natural resources, environmental quality, and options for spatial mobility.
Author |
: David Ball |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 499 |
Release |
: 2018-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1977068472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781977068477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heroic Sick People by : David Ball
The disastrous history of the automobile's first 100 years, played out against the backdrop of a Michigan city.
Author |
: David Thoms |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015046899145 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Motor Car and Popular Culture in the 20th Century by : David Thoms
Comprises 18 contributions from the US, the UK, and Australia on the motor car as a cultural phenomenon which has come to dominate the 20th century. The contributors come at the subject from a variety of disciplines, including semiotics, social history, literary and film criticism, and musicology. T
Author |
: David Blanke |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105123266756 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hell on Wheels by : David Blanke
A fascinating look at the rise and growing popularity of the automobile during the first half of twentieth-century America, which brought with it a dark undercurrent. On the one hand, Americans embraced the newfound sense of freedom and mobility embodied by the automobile; on the other, they grew increasingly anxious about and fearful of the enormous threat that cars--and car accidents--posed to public safety.