Book ID: CBB686968165

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (2019)

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Gunn, Simon (Author)
Susan C. Townsend (Author)
Christopher Gerteis (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic


Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Book Series:SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan
Physical Details: 272
Language: English

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment (the M/E dilemma); and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. The result is the first comparative history of mass automobility and its environmental consequences between East and West.

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Authors & Contributors
Randell, Richard W.
Robert Braun
Harris, Neil
Homei, Aya
Jones, Peter Murray
Kameyama, Tetsuya
Journals
The Journal of Transport History
Transfers
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
History of Education
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Publishers
University of Chicago
Bloomsbury Academic
Manchester University Press
MIT Press
Rowman & Littlefield
The MIT Press
Concepts
Automobiles
Automobility
Cross-national comparison
Mobility
Technology and society
Land transportation
People
Edge, Selwyn Francis
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Japan
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
United States
Birmingham (England)
Institutions
Nissan Motor Company Ltd.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Volvo Car Corporation
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