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Author:   Massimo Moraglio ,  Christopher Kopper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780415744201

ISBN 10:   0415744202
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   12 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction Christopher Kopper and Massimo Moraglio 2. Clashes of Cultures: Road vs. Rail in the North-Atlantic World during the Inter-War Coordination Crisis Gijs Mom 3. Half-Holiday Excursions and Rambling Clubs – How did Leisure Shape the Mobilities of the Early Twentieth Century? Jill Ebrey 4. Towards a Better Understanding of Bicycles as Transport Peter Cox 5. Mobile Worths: Disputes Over Streets Jim Conley 6. Urbanization and Transport Restructuring Before World War II: A Comparison Between London and Osaka Takeshi Yuzawa 7. Why the ""Los Angelization"" of German Cities Did Not Happen: The German Perception of U.S. Traffic Planning and the Preservation of the German City Christopher Kopper 8. Automobility, Utopia, and the Contradictions of Modern Urbanism, Concerning Karel Teige Steven Logan 9. The Conquest of Urban Mobility: The Spanish Case, 1843-2012 Alberte Martínez and Jesús Mirás 10. Shifting Transport Regimes: The Strange Case of Light Rail Revival Massimo Moraglio 11. The Creation and Perpetuation of an Automobile-Oriented Urban Form: Dispersed Suburbanism in North America Pierre Filion 12. Transportation Planning as Infrastructural Fix: Regulating Traffic Congestion in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area John Saunders 13. Move and Maintain: Mapping Multi-Local Lifestyles in Hyderabad, India Angela Jain and Gowkanapalli Lakshmi Narasimha Reddy 14. Dwelling In Between? Multi-Location between History and New Socio-Technical Systems Hans-Liudger Dienel and Massimo Moraglio"

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Christopher Kopper is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Bielefield, Germany. Massimo Moraglio is a Researcher in the Centre for Technology and Society at the Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Germany.

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