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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Explorations in Mobility ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789205602
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 388.4 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • HE305 .A79 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our everyday lives. United by their pursuit of a “usable past,” the studies in this interdisciplinary collection consider the ecological, social, and economic aspects of urban mobility, showing how historical inquiry can make both conceptual and practical contributions to the projects of sustainability and urban renewal.
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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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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 history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our everyday lives. United by their pursuit of a “usable past,” the studies in this interdisciplinary collection consider the ecological, social, and economic aspects of urban mobility, showing how historical inquiry can make both conceptual and practical contributions to the projects of sustainability and urban renewal.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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