Article ID: CBB001181597

American numbers copied! Shaping the Swedish postwar car society (2004)

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Description The essay begins with a methodological discussion of the concepts of technology, technology transfer, and social carriers of technology, followed by a consideration to set the context for the emergence of a scientific approach to city planning in the 1930s. An institutional framework that reflected the planning discourse was imported from Great Britain in the 1940s, and together with mass motorization, this framework paved the way for the key technical actors of the 1950s: traffic engineers.The essay then examines the process of transferring traffic engineering knowledge from America to Sweden, and shows how these new ideas combined with the institutional framework directed the city planning discourse toward a conception of a “Car City.” Technology transfer was pivotal to the development, establishment, and impact of standards for parking, and these contributed to the rise of the Swedish car society. (Abstract from: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ctt/summary/v002/2.3lundin.html )


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Article Ostby, Per (2004) Educating the Norwegian Nation: Traffic Engineering and Technological Diffusion. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society (pp. 247-272). unapi

Article Johnston, Erik W.; Johnston, Van R. (2004) Notes from the Field: Norway and the automobile. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society (pp. 268-272). unapi

Article Seely, Bruce Edsall; Klingner, Donald E.; Klein, Gary (2004) "Push" and "Pull" Factors in Technology Transfer: Moving American-Style Highway Engineering to Europe, 1945-1965. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society (pp. 229-246). unapi

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Article Elrahman, Ossama Abd (2004) Notes from the Field: Sweden's car culture and technology transfer. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society (pp. 334-337). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Schipper, Frank
Lundin, Per
Gopakumara, Govind
Elrahman, Ossama Abd
Johnston, Van R.
Annavarapu, Sneha
Concepts
Urban planning
Urban history
Automobiles
Urban Spaces
Technology and society
Roads and highways
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Sweden
Bangalore, India
India
Norway
Germany
Institutions
League of Nations
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