A U-Turn to the Future

Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850

Martin Emanuel, Frank Schipper, Ruth Oldenziel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

350 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-650-4 (ISBN)

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From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there remain critical insights to be gleaned from the history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our everyday lives. United by their pursuit of a “usable past,” the studies in this interdisciplinary collection consider the ecological, social, and economic aspects of urban mobility, showing how historical inquiry can make both conceptual and practical contributions to the projects of sustainability and urban renewal.

Martin Emanuel is a historian of technology affiliated with the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University with a profile on mobility, urban, and tourism history. He is the author of Trafikslag på undantag: Cykeltrafiken i Stockholm 1930–1980 [Excluded through Planning: Bicycle Traffic in Stockholm 1930–1980] (2012) and co-author of Cycling Cities: The European Experience (2016).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Historicizing Sustainable Urban Mobility

Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, and Ruth Oldenziel

SECTION I: SELLING UNSUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY

Chapter 1. Designing (Un)Sustainable Urban Mobility from Transnational Settings, 1850–Present

Ruth Oldenziel, M. Luísa Sousa, and Pieter van Wesemael

Chapter 2. History as Motordom’s Tool of Agenda Legitimation: Twentieth-Century U.S. Urban Mobility Trajectories

Peter Norton

Chapter 3. Railway Modernism Losing Out: Lessons from an English Conurbation, 1955–1975

Colin Divall

SECTION II: RECOVERING SUSTAINABLE MOBILITIES OF THE PAST

Chapter 4. Pedestrian Stories: Recovering Sustainable Urban Mobility

Colin Pooley

Chapter 5. Load Story: A Century of Pedestrian Logistics in Toulouse

Franck Cochoy, Roland Canu, and Cédric Calvignac

Chapter 6. Recovering Sustainable Mobility Practices: A Visual History of Turku’s Streetscape 1950–1980

Tiina Männistö-Funk

SECTION III: PERSISTENCE AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITIES

Chapter 7. State Socialism and Sustainable Urban Mobility: Alternative Paths in St Petersburg since the 1880s

Alexandra Bekasova, Julia Kulikova, and Martin Emanuel

Chapter 8. Liveable Streets and Hidden Unsustainability: The Biography of a Street in Stockholm

Martin Emanuel

Chapter 9. Green Urban Spaces and Sustainable Mobility: Parks as Pockets of Persistence since the 1830s

Frank Schipper

SECTION IV: RESEARCH AGENDAS FOR THE FUTURE

Chapter 10. Mobility Justice and the Velomobile Commons in Urban America

Mimi Sheller

Chapter 11. Toward a Long-Term Measurement System of Sustainable Urban Mobility

Appendix: Sources for Measuring Historical Sustainable Mobility

Jan-Pieter Smits and Frank Veraart

Epilogue: Reflections from a Policy Perspective

Hans Jeekel and Bert Toussaint

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Mobility
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-650-9 / 1800736509
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-650-4 / 9781800736504
Zustand	Neuware