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Cars transformed cities around the globe: Gunn and Townsend illuminate this worldwide phenomenon by looking in depth at the motor cities of two very different automotive powerhouses. Even as their careful analysis of ideas, plans, and controversies in Birmingham and Nagoya highlights the differences between Britain and Japan, it reveals the cross-cultural sway of the automobile with their stories of how cars conquered cities and divided their citizens. * Dr Brian Ladd, University of Albany, USA * Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Japan and Britain is an exciting and thought-provoking piece of scholarly research. It discusses the realities of automobilisation in Britain and Japan by focusing on their representative motor cities, Birmingham and Nagoya, providing readers with the insight necessary to consider the future of automobility. * Dr Junichi Hasegawa, Keio University, Japan *

Cars transformed cities around the globe, bringing them superhighways and suburbs along with pollution and carnage. Simon Gunn and Susan Townsend illuminate this worldwide phenomenon by looking in depth at the motor cities of two very different automotive powerhouses. Even as their careful analysis of ideas, plans, and controversies in Birmingham and Nagoya highlights the differences between Britain and Japan, it reveals the cross-cultural sway of the automobile with these two strikingly similar stories of the way cars conquered cities-and divided their citizens. * Dr Brian Ladd, University of Albany, USA * Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Japan and Britain is an exciting, novel, and challenging piece of scholarly research. It tells us the realities of the process and consequences of automobiliosation in Britain and Japan by focusing on their representative motor cities, Birmingham and Nagoya, reveals the features of motorisation both common and specific to a particular country or place, and provides us knowledge and insight necessary to consider the future of automobility. * Dr Junichi Hasegawa, Keio University, Japan *

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Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the co-editor of the journal Urban History and has published articles on automobility in Twentieth Century British History (2011), Social History (2013), and Historical Journal (2017). Susan C. Townsend is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the Principle Investigator on the Leverhulme Project Motor Cities and the author of Miki Kiyoshi 1897-1945: Japan's Itinerant Philosopher (2009).

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