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Installing Automobility

Author : Govind Gopakumar
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262538911
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Installing Automobility written by Govind Gopakumar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru's burgeoning automobility to the city's history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the “regimes of congestion” that emerge to address the issue; an “infrastructurescape” that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an “automotive citizenship” (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses.

Post-Automobility Futures

Author : Robert Braun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538158868
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Post-Automobility Futures written by Robert Braun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. A successful transition to a post-automobility future will require new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing automobility, one of the most significant and powerful imaginaries of contemporary neo-liberalism. This book offers such a view by reconceptualizing automobility in its entirety as both an imaginary and a dreamscape. In order to address the challenges, externalities and tragedies that automobility has brought upon us, automobility, we argue, must end as we know it.

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan

Author : Simon Gunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350075949
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan by : Simon Gunn

Download or read book Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan written by Simon Gunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Republic of Drivers

Author : Cotten Seiler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226745651
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Republic of Drivers written by Cotten Seiler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising gas prices, sprawl and congestion, global warming, even obesity—driving is a factor in many of the most contentious issues of our time. So how did we get here? How did automobile use become so vital to the identity of Americans? Republic of Drivers looks back at the period between 1895 and 1961—from the founding of the first automobile factory in America to the creation of the Interstate Highway System—to find out how driving evolved into a crucial symbol of freedom and agency. Cotten Seiler combs through a vast number of historical, social scientific, philosophical, and literary sources to illustrate the importance of driving to modern American conceptions of the self and the social and political order. He finds that as the figure of the driver blurred into the figure of the citizen, automobility became a powerful resource for women, African Americans, and others seeking entry into the public sphere. And yet, he argues, the individualistic but anonymous act of driving has also monopolized our thinking about freedom and democracy, discouraging the crafting of a more sustainable way of life. As our fantasies of the open road turn into fears of a looming energy crisis, Seiler shows us just how we ended up a republic of drivers—and where we might be headed.

Car Troubles

Author : Jim Conley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317169816
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Car Troubles written by Jim Conley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized. It examines a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, economic, and political contexts, and by combining social theory, specific case studies and policy-oriented analysis. With an international team of contributors the book provides a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the global phenomenon of automobility from the Anglo world to the cases in China and Chile and all the elements that relate to it.

Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia

Author : Arve Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317396715
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia written by Arve Hansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically rich and grounded analyses of both comparative and single-country case studies, the authors chart new approaches to studying automobility and development in emerging Asia.

Story of the Automobile

Author : Herbert Lee Barber
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3861956446
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Story of the Automobile written by Herbert Lee Barber and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the first edition originally released in 1917.

The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility

Author : Alan Walks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317659686
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility by : Alan Walks

Download or read book The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility written by Alan Walks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations? Can our cities be made more sustainable, and can environmental, economic and social collapse be staved off through changes in urban form and travel behaviour? How might rising indebtedness and the recent series of financial crises be related to automobile dependence and patterns of urban automobile use? To what extent does the system and economy of automobility factor in the production of urban socio-spatial inequalities, and how might these inequalities in mobility be understood and measured? What can we learn from the politics of mobility and social movements within cities? What is the role of automobility, and auto-dependence, in differentiating groups, both within cities and rural areas, and among transnational migrants moving across international borders? These are just some of the questions this book addresses. This volume provides a holistic and reflexive account of the role played by automobility in producing, reproducing, and differentiating social, economic and political life in the contemporary city, as well as the role played by the city in producing and reproducing auto-mobile inequalities. The first section, titled Driving Vulnerability, deals with issues of global importance related to economic, social, financial, and environmental sustainability and resilience, and socialization. The second section, Driving Inequality, is concerned with understanding the role played by automobility in producing urban socio-spatial inequalities, including those rooted in accessibility to work, migration status and ethnic concentration, and new measures of mobility-based inequality derived from the concept of effective speed. The third section, titled, Driving Politics, explores the politics of mobility in particular places, with an eye to demonstrating both the relevance of the politics of mobility for influencing and reinforcing actually existing neoliberalisms, and the kinds of politics that might allow for reform or restructuring of the auto-mobile city into one that is more socially, politically and environmentally just. In the conclusion to the book Walks draws on the findings of the other chapters to comment on the relationship between automobility, neoliberalism and citizenship, and to lay out strategies for dealing with the urban car system.

Car Troubles

Author : Dr Arlene Tigar McLaren
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488268
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Car Troubles written by Dr Arlene Tigar McLaren and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized. It examines a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, economic, and political contexts, and by combining social theory, specific case studies and policy-oriented analysis. With an international team of contributors the book provides a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the global phenomenon of automobility from the Anglo world to the cases in China and Chile and all the elements that relate to it.

The Life of the Automobile

Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466836237
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Automobile written by Steven Parissien and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car. The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention, and author Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colorful 130-year history. Readers learn the grand and turbulent history of the motor car, from its earliest appearance in the 1880s—as little more than a powered quadricycle—and the innovations of the early pioneer carmakers. The author examines the advances of the interwar era, the Golden Age of the 1950s, and the iconic years of the 1960s to the decades of doubt and uncertainty following the oil crisis of 1973, the global mergers of the 1990s, the bailouts of the early twenty-first century, and the emergence of the electric car. This is not just a story of horsepower and performance but a tale of extraordinary people: of intuitive carmakers such as Karl Benz, Sir Henry Royce, Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat), André Citroën, and Louis Renault; of exceptionally gifted designers such as the eccentric, Ohio-born Chris Bangle (BMW); and of visionary industrialists such as Henry Ford, Ferdinand Porsche (the Volkswagen Beetle), and Gene Bordinat (the Ford Mustang), among numerous other game changers. Above all, this comprehensive history demonstrates how the epic story of the car mirrors the history of the modern era, from the brave hopes and soaring ambitions of the early twentieth century to the cynicism and ecological concerns of a century later. Bringing to life the flamboyant entrepreneurs, shrewd businessmen, and gifted engineers that worked behind the scenes to bring us horsepower and performance, The Life of the Automobile is a globe-spanning account of the auto industry that is sure to rev the engines of entrepreneurs and gearheads alike.

The Automobile in American History and Culture

Author : Michael L. Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016062
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Automobile in American History and Culture written by Michael L. Berger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.

The Automobile Industry and Its Impact Upon the Nation's Economy

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing. Automobile Industry Task Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Automobile Industry and Its Impact Upon the Nation's Economy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing. Automobile Industry Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Automobility in Transition?

Author : Frank W. Geels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415885058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Automobility in Transition? written by Frank W. Geels and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the past evolution towards car-based forms of transport - problems associated with it, the success of past and current efforts to deal with problems of pollution, congestion, safety and degradation of public spaces and amenities, and also new developments, visions and strategies.

Automobile Manufacturers of Cleveland and Ohio, 1864-1942

Author : Frank E. Wrenick
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786475358
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Automobile Manufacturers of Cleveland and Ohio, 1864-1942 written by Frank E. Wrenick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive look at the heyday of automobile manufacturing in Ohio chronicles the region's early prominence in an industry that was inventing itself. More than 550 Ohio manufacturers are covered, from Abbott to Zent. There are familiar marques, such as Jordan, Baker, Peerless, and White of Cleveland, along with Packard, Stutz, Crosley and Willys. Less well-known and forgotten automotive ventures, such Auto-Bug, Darling and Ben-Hur, are documented, although many never got beyond the concept stage. Attention is given to the various ancillary industries, services and organizations which nurtured, developed with and, in many cases, survived the decline of Cleveland's automotive industry.

Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac 2007

Author : Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher : Plunkett Research, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1593920598
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac 2007 written by Jack W. Plunkett and published by Plunkett Research, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the truck and specialty vehicles business, including: automotive industry trends and market research; mergers, acquisitions, globalization; automobile manufacturers; truck makers; makers of specialty vehicles such as RVs; automobile loans, insurance and other financial services; dealerships; and, components manufacturers.

Automobile Dealer Franchises

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automobile Dealer Franchises written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Role of Giant Corporations: Automobile industry, 1969

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Role of Giant Corporations: Automobile industry, 1969 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers economic concentration within the U.S. automobile industry and its impact on consumers, competition, and technological progress, and its response to Government regulations.