A U-Turn to the Future : : Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850 /

A U-Turn to the Future : : Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850 / / ed. by Martin Emanuel, Ruth Oldenziel, Frank Schipper.

From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there remain critical insights to be gleaned from the his...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bekasova, Alexandra,
Calvignac, Cédric,
Canu, Roland,
Cochoy, Franck,
Divall, Colin,
Emanuel, Martin,
Jeekel, Hans,
Kulikova, Julia,
Norton, Peter,
Oldenziel, Ruth,
Pooley, Colin,
Schipper, Frank,
Sheller, Mimi,
Smits, Jan-Pieter,
Sousa, M. Luísa,
Toussaint, Bert,
Veraart, Frank,
Wesemael, Pieter van,
HerausgeberIn:
Emanuel, Martin,
Oldenziel, Ruth,
Schipper, Frank,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Explorations in Mobility ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION Historicizing Sustainable Urban Mobility
  • SECTION I Selling Unsustainable Urban Mobility
  • CHAPTER 1 Designing (Un)Sustainable Urban Mobility from Transnational Settings, 1850–Present
  • CHAPTER 2 History as Motordom’s Tool of Agenda Legitimation: Twentieth-Century U.S. Urban Mobility Trajectories
  • CHAPTER 3 Railway Modernism Losing Out: Lessons from an English Conurbation, 1955–1975
  • SECTION II Recovering Sustainable Mobilities of the Past
  • CHAPTER 4 Pedestrian Stories: Recovering Sustainable Urban Mobility
  • CHAPTER 5 Load Story: A Century of Pedestrian Logistics in Toulouse
  • CHAPTER 6 Recovering Sustainable Mobility Practices: A Visual History of Turku’s Streetscape 1950–1980
  • SECTION III Persistence and Sustainable Urban Mobilities
  • CHAPTER 7 State Socialism and Sustainable Urban Mobility: Alternative Paths in St. Petersburg since the 1880s
  • CHAPTER 8 Livable Streets and Hidden Unsustainability: The Biography of a Street in Stockholm
  • CHAPTER 9 Green Urban Spaces and Sustainable Mobility: Parks as Pockets of Persistence since the 1830s
  • SECTION IV Research Agendas for the Future
  • CHAPTER 10 Mobility Justice and the Velomobile Commons in Urban America
  • CHAPTER 11 Toward a Long-Term Measurement System of Sustainable Urban Mobility
  • EPILOGUE Reflections from a Policy Perspective
  • Index

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