Suburbanizing the Masses: Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138711563 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str.

Colin Divall; Winstan Bond

Opis

This title was first published in 2003. A collection of essays looking at the role of mass transit in shaping the urban environment. The strength of this volume lies in its wide ranging geographical scope, which covers not only Western Europe, but also North America, Japan, Sweden and Poland. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and social evolution of towns and cities in various countries since the mid nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'This is a magnificient book and a source for the development of many channels of further research, as well as being a lesson in the sources to which the various writers have turned.' Road & Road Transport '... well illustrated and wide-ranging...' The Journal of Transport History '... a useful cross-cultural treatment of an important topic. The volume is relevant not only to urban history but to policy analysis, urban planning, and urban geography and sociology.' Technology and Culture

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: technology, (sub)urban development and the social construction of urban transport, Colin Divall and Barbara Schmucki; Transport and (sub)urban development: Between politics and technology: transport as a factor of mass suburbanization in Europe, 1890-1939, Paolo Capuzzo; The flawed economics and morality of the American uniform five-cent fare, Winstan Bond; Suburbanizing the masses for profit or welfare: conflict and cooperation between private and municipal interests in German cities, 1890-1914, Dieter Schott; Suburban rail in Poland: decline at the dawn of suburbanization?, Jacek Wesolowski; Changing patterns of travel, transport and land ownership in a Victorian new town: Middlesbrough to 1939, Tony Carr; Professional paradigms of urban transport and traffic: Cities as traffic machines: urban transport planning in East and West Germany, Barbara Schmucki; Vision in solid form: a comparison between two solutions to the traffic problem in Stockholm, 1941 and 1992, Tomas Ekman; Urban railway redivivus: image and ideology in Los Angeles, California, Robert C. Post; Accounting for the customers? A tale of public transport in 1930s Coventry, Lesley Whitworth; Public transport and urban identities: Redefining the city: people, transportation and space in Philadelphia, 1876-1901, John H. Hepp, IV; Civic pride, urban identity and public transport in Britain, 1880-1980, Ralph Harrington; Passenger connections: views of the intercity bus terminal in the USA, Margaret Walsh; The transit destinations of Japanese public space: the case of Nagoya station, Jilly Traganou; Index.

O autorze

Colin Divall, Winstan Bond