Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan Contributor(s): Gunn, Simon (Author), Gerteis, Christopher (Editor), Townsend, Susan C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350075930 ISBN-13: 9781350075931 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning |
Series: Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gerteis, Christopher: - Christopher Gerteis is Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. |