Architectures of Hurry-Mobilities, Cities and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781138729841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 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, tensions and contradictions inherent in the impulse to higher rates of circulation in modernizing cities. Together the essays demonstrate there are many pathways to modern urban mobility and hence suggest that metropolitan regions in the future might be open to a range of ways of moving and dwelling.

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