Explorations in Mobility – serie
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11 produkter
U-Turn to the Future
Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850
Av Martin Emanuel, Frank Schipper m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
543 kr
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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 …
Atlantic Automobilism
Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940
Av Gijs Mom
Inbunden, 2014
2749 kr
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Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with …
Devil's Wheels
Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Av Sasha Disko
Inbunden, 2016
2186 kr
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During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning …
Driving Modernity
Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan–Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to …
Devil's Wheels
Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Av Sasha Disko
Häftad, 2019
336 kr
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During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era's burgeoning …
U-Turn to the Future
Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850
Av Martin Emanuel, Frank Schipper m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1936 kr
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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 …
Iron Landscapes
National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Inbunden, 2021
1979 kr
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Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very …
Transnational Railway Cultures
Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art
Av Benjamin Fraser, Steven D. Spalding
Inbunden, 2021
1979 kr
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Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an …
Driving Modernity
Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943
Häftad, 2023
316 kr
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On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan–Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to …
If Cars Could Walk
Postsocialist Streets in Transformation
Av Ger Duijzings, Tauri Tuvikene
Inbunden, 2023
1916 kr
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In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. If Cars Could Walk uses …
World History of Mobility
An Essay on Road Cultures and Beyond
Av Gijs Mom
Inbunden, 2025
1916 kr
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As a tool of globalized mobility, the car provides a useful barometer for charting the global development of socio-cultural, economic, technical, and political modernization. Shaped by prevailing gender and racial norms and popularized by a Western-driven car culture, it is a commodity whose access …
