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Driving Spaces A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

28.11.2007

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

320

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/16,4/2,5 cm

Gewicht

590 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-3073-8

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

28.11.2007

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

320

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/16,4/2,5 cm

Gewicht

590 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-3073-8

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Driving Spaces

  • List of Figures ix

    Series Editors' Preface xii

    Acknowledgements xiii

    1 Introduction: Driving Spaces 1

    Mobilities 4

    Driving, Space, Social Relations 6

    Driving, Landscape, Visuality 12

    Geographies of the Modern Road 16

    Contents of the Book 20

    2 Envisioning British Motorways 23

    Motoring and the Motor-Car Way, 1896-1930 24

    The German Autobahnen: The Politics and Aesthetics of a Nation's Roads 31

    Motorways for Britain? National Plans, National Defence 38

    Motorways, War and Reconstruction 43

    Motorways and the British Landscape 46

    3 Designing and Landscaping the M1 60

    Legislating and Campaigning: Towards a National Motorway Network 61

    Locating the M1: Regional Planning, Local Protests and the Authority of the Engineer 67

    Landscape Architecture and the Post-war, Modern Road 73

    'A New Look at the English Landscape': Landscape Architecture, Movement and the Aesthetics of a Modern Motorway 83

    Towards a Road Style: Service Areas in the Landscape 90

    'Cutting Holes in the Landscape': Britain's Motorway Signs 97

    4 Constructing the M 1 103

    'Operation Motorway': Constructing the M1 Motorway 104
    Song of a Road: Folk Song, Working-Class Culture and the Labour of a Motorway 124

    5 Driving, Consuming and Governing the M 1 141

    Motorway Driving, Embodiment, Competence 143

    'Motorway Madness': Driving, Governing, Expertise 152

    Motorway Modern: Consuming the M 1 162

    Motorway Service Areas and the Motorist-Consumer 178

    Assessing the M1's Performance: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scientific Experiments, Accidents 186

    6 Motorways and Driving since the 1960s 200

    The 'M1 Corridor' 202

    Motorways and 'the Environment' 204

    Dystopian and Marginal Landscapes? 208

    Placeless Environments? 210

    Placing the M1 in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 213

    Appendix: Archival Sources 219

    Notes 224

    References 246

    Index 285