Gunn, Simon (Author)
Susan C. Townsend (Author)
Christopher Gerteis (Author)
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 2019
Language: English
Edition Details: Book Series:SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan
Physical Details: 272
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.
...MoreReview Christopher Kopper (2023) Review of "Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan". The Journal of Transport History (pp. 157-158).
Review Shane Ewen (2021) Review of "Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan". American Historical Review (pp. 1253-1254).
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