U-Turn to the Future

Martin Emanuel is a historian of technology affiliated with the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University with a profile on mobility, urban, and tourism history. He is the author of Trafikslag på undantag: Cykeltrafiken i Stockholm 1930–1980 [Excluded through Planning: Bicycle Traffic in Stockholm 1930–1980] (2012) and co-author of Cycling Cities: The European Experience (2016).

“This is the book I’ve been waiting to read: an investigation into how our cities came to be as unsustainable as they apparently were in the recent past. It uncovers hidden histories containing important clues for how to make cities more sustainable in the future.” • Daniel Gordon, Edge Hill University“The entire book is innovative, accessible, and well-written, with an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, economics, geography, and a number of other fields.” • Keith Laybourn, University of Huddersfield

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Historicizing Sustainable Urban MobilityFrank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, and Ruth OldenzielSECTION I: SELLING UNSUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITYChapter 1. Designing (Un)Sustainable Urban Mobility from Transnational Settings, 1850–PresentRuth Oldenziel, M. Luísa Sousa, and Pieter van WesemaelChapter 2. History as Motordom’s Tool of Agenda Legitimation: Twentieth-Century U.S. Urban Mobility TrajectoriesPeter NortonChapter 3. Railway Modernism Losing Out: Lessons from an English Conurbation, 1955–1975Colin DivallSECTION II: RECOVERING SUSTAINABLE MOBILITIES OF THE PASTChapter 4. Pedestrian Stories: Recovering Sustainable Urban MobilityColin PooleyChapter 5. Load Story: A Century of Pedestrian Logistics in ToulouseFranck Cochoy, Roland Canu, and Cédric CalvignacChapter 6. Recovering Sustainable Mobility Practices: A Visual History of Turku’s Streetscape 1950–1980Tiina Männistö-FunkSECTION III: PERSISTENCE AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITIESChapter 7. State Socialism and Sustainable Urban Mobility: Alternative Paths in St Petersburg since the 1880sAlexandra Bekasova, Julia Kulikova, and Martin EmanuelChapter 8. Liveable Streets and Hidden Unsustainability: The Biography of a Street in StockholmMartin EmanuelChapter 9. Green Urban Spaces and Sustainable Mobility: Parks as Pockets of Persistence since the 1830sFrank SchipperSECTION IV: RESEARCH AGENDAS FOR THE FUTUREChapter 10. Mobility Justice and the Velomobile Commons in Urban AmericaMimi ShellerChapter 11. Toward a Long-Term Measurement System of Sustainable Urban MobilityAppendix: Sources for Measuring Historical Sustainable MobilityJan-Pieter Smits and Frank VeraartEpilogue: Reflections from a Policy PerspectiveHans Jeekel and Bert ToussaintIndex