Book ID: CBB342860952

Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities (2020)

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Gopakumara, Govind (Author)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 312
Language: English

An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South.Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru's burgeoning automobility to the city's history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the “regimes of congestion” that emerge to address the issue; an “infrastructurescape” that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an “automotive citizenship” (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses.

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Authors & Contributors
Gopakumara, Govind
Dasgupta, Simanti
David Turner
Holdsworth, Deryck
Friss, Evan
Michal Ďurčo
Concepts
Technology and society
Infrastructure
Transportation
Automobiles
Urban history
Land transportation
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
New York City (New York, U.S.)
India
Bangalore, India
Czechoslovakia
Shanghai (China)
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