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Author Gunn, Simon, author

Title Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan / Simon Gunn & Susan C. Townsend
Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan
SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan.
Contents List of Figures -- List of Tables and Graphs -- Preface -- Note on Text and Translation -- Introduction: Automobility and the City Between East and West -- 1. Planning the Automotive City, c. 1920-1960 -- 2. Civic Engineering: Roads Construction and the Urban Environment -- 3. Automobility and Urban Form -- 4. Driving the Motor City: The Experience of Automobility -- 5. Pollution and Protest -- 6. Kuruma Banare: Turning Away from the Car? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Automobiles -- Japan -- Nagoya-shi -- History -- Case studies
Automobiles -- England -- Birmingham -- History -- Case studies
Roads -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Roads -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
City planning -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
City planning -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Urban transportation -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Urban transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Urban transportation
Roads
City planning
Automobiles
Japan -- Nagoya-shi
Japan
Great Britain
England -- Birmingham
Genre/Form History
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Townsend, Susan C.
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