Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvSimon Gunn,Susan C. Townsend,Christopher Gerteis

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-02-25
Mått152 x 232 x 12 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350201774

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Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the co-editor of the journal Urban History and has published articles on automobility in Twentieth Century British History (2011), Social History (2013), and Historical Journal (2017).Susan C. Townsend is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the Principle Investigator on the Leverhulme Project Motor Cities and the author of Miki Kiyoshi 1897-1945: Japan's Itinerant Philosopher (2009).

List of FiguresList of Tables and GraphsPreface Note on Text and TranslationIntroduction: Automobility and the City Between East and West1. Planning the Automotive City, c. 1920-19602. Civic Engineering: Roads Construction and the Urban Environment3. Automobility and Urban Form4. Driving the Motor City: The Experience of Automobility5. Pollution and Protest6. Kuruma Banare: Turning Away from the Car?ConclusionBibliographyIndex