Driving Modernity

Massimo Moraglio is a senior researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin. He has received an EU Marie Sklodowska Curie IEF fellowship and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transport History. He has coedited the volumes The Organization of Transport: A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy (2015) and Peripheral Flows: A Historical Perspective on Mobilities between Cores and Fringes (2016).

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

List of Acronyms



Introduction



Chapter 1. The Roads before the Motorways

Chapter 2. 1922: The Motorway from Milan to the Prealpine Lakes

Chapter 3. Motorway Mania in Italy in the 1920s

Chapter 4. The Ordinary Roads Problem

Chapter 5. From the Pedemontana Project to the Construction Suspension

Chapter 6. A Case Study: The Turin–Milan Motorway

Chapter 7. The 1930s: The European Utopia and the Nationalist Fulfillment

Chapter 8. The Bankruptcy and Legacy of the Motorways



Conclusion



Bibliography

Index