Architectures of Hurry--Mobilities, Cities and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780367591892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh; Richard Dennis; Deryck W. Holdsworth

Opis

This book explores how from the mid-C19th cultural, political, social, technological and economic factors have shaped the mobilities of people, things and information within several urban regions in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. By focussing on the cultural and material manifestations of ‘hurry’, the essays analyse the complexities,

Spis treści

1. Architectures of Hurry: An Introductory Essay Part I Modes of Hurry 2. ‘She scorches now and then’: American Women and the Construction of 1890s Cycling 3. The London Bus: An Unlikely Architecture of Hurry 4. The Tales of Two Mobility Infrastructures: The Street and the Underground Railway of Buenos Aires, 1880s–1940s 5. Hurry-Slow: Automobility in Beijing, or a Resurrection of the Kingdom of Bicycles? Part II Local and Global Infrastructures 6. An Architecture of Sluggishness: Organic Infrastructure and Anti-mobility in Toronto, 1870–1910 7. Keeping Pedestrians in their Place: Technologies of Segregation on the Streets of East London 8. Hurried Exchanges: Hybrid Office Buildings and Their Uses in the Late Nineteenth Century 9. Shelter from the Hurry? Hospitality in Montreal, 1836–1913 Part III Practices of Mobility 10. Pedestrianism, Money and Time: Mobilities of Hurry in George Gissing’s The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 11. ‘We’re going to move … I can’t rush backwards and forwards, I’ll go mad – I am sure of it.’ Representations of Speed and Haste in English Life Writing, 1846–1958 12. Epilogue: Mobilizing Hurrysome Historical Geographies

O autorze

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh is Associate Professor of Geography, Brock University. He is the author of Newspaper City: The Liberal Press and Toronto’s Street Surfaces, 1860–1935 (2017), numerous publications on turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultures of urban reform and city planning, historical cycling, and urban historical geographies of class, gender, and race, and is co-editor of The World of Niagara Wine (2013).

Richard Dennis is Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College London (UCL). His books include Cities in Modernity (2008) and English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century (1984). He has written for numerous publications on housing, public transport, and imaginative literature in nineteenth- and twentieth-century London and Toronto. He is an editorial committee member of The London Journal, and previously was associate editor of Journal of Urban History and series editor of Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography.

Deryck W. Holdsworth is Emeritus Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University. He is the co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling over Three Centuries (1998) and was co-editor of the Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume III, Addressing the Twentieth Century (1990). He has authored numerous journal articles on office buildings, folk and industrial housing, and insights from historical hotel guest registers.