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Cover 1 Contents 10 List of Figures 12 List of Graphs 14 Preface 15 Note on Text and Translation 19 Introduction: Automobility and the City between East and West 20 Japan and Britain 22 Motor cities: Nagoya and Birmingham 24 East and West 30 Objectives 31 1 Planning the Automotive City, c. 1920–1960 36 Traffic and the history of town planning 37 The emergence of the professional town planner 42 The impact of the Second World War 45 Post-war reconstruction 48 The rise of the motor industry 54 The onset of mass motorization 56 Conclusion 60 2 Civic Engineering: Roads Construction and the Urban Environment 62 The motor revolution and its consequences 65 Civic engineering 71 Traffic architecture 80 The physical environment of the motor city 86 Conclusion 89 3 Automobility and Urban Form 92 Urban form before 1945 93 Transport and urban form after 1945: Nagoya 97 Transport and urban form after 1945: Birmingham 107 Conclusion 115 4 Driving the Motor City:The Experience of Automobility 118 The euphoria of the expressway 118 Car ownership in the ‘Motor Age’ 120 Automobility and consumerism 125 Cultures of driving: Casualties, congestion and breakdown 130 Driving and urban legibility 137 Ped

Author

Simon Gunn;Susan C. Townsend;

Language

EN