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Author Gopakumar, Govind, author.

Title Installing automobility : emerging politics of mobility and streets in Indian cities / Govind Gopakumar
Published Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Series Urban and Industrial Environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Contents Installing automobility in Bengaluru -- Locating congestion in Bengaluru -- Regime of congestion -- Infrastructures of privilege -- Automotive citizenship -- Shabby automobility -- Displacing automobility
Summary An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru's burgeoning automobility to the city's history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the "regimes of congestion" that emerge to address the issue; an "infrastructurescape" that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an "automotive citizenship" (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses
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Subject Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore
Automobiles -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore
Traffic congestion -- India -- Bangalore -- History
Urban transportation policy -- India -- Bangalore
City planning -- India -- Bangalore
Sustainable urban development -- India -- Bangalore
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Automobiles -- Social aspects
City planning
Sustainable urban development
Traffic congestion
Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects
Urban transportation policy
India -- Bangalore
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262358545
0262358549