A Mobile Century?: Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Author:   Colin G. Pooley ,  Jean Turnbull ,  Mags Adams ,  Professor Markus Hesse
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780754641810


Pages:   270
Publication Date:   28 November 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Colin G. Pooley ,  Jean Turnbull ,  Mags Adams ,  Professor Markus Hesse
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780754641810


ISBN 10:   0754641813
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   28 November 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: The significance of travel and mobility; Mobility and society; Reconstructing mobilities; Changes in everyday mobility: an overview; Travelling to school; Travelling to work; Travel for leisure and pleasure: children playing and hanging around; Travel for leisure and pleasure: entertainment, sport, shopping and holidays; Mobility, family and the life course; Transport policies, technologies and the experience of everyday mobility; The lessons of history: mobility change and contemporary transport policy; Bibliography; Index.

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'...[a] significant study which raises important questions for transport planning as well as providing real insights into the way ordinary folk moved around in their daily lives over the twentieth century.' Family and Community History '...A Mobile Century? is full of insights and interesting facts...' Local Population Studies


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Colin Pooley is Professor of Social and Historical Geography, at Lancaster University, UK. Jean Turnbull is Centre Administrator for the Centre for North West Regional Studies, Lancaster University, UK. Mags Adams is Research Fellow in the Acoustics Research Centre, at the University of Salford, UK.

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