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Title Architectures of hurry : mobilities, cities and modernity / edited by Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Richard Dennis and Deryck W. Holdsworth
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in historical geography
Routledge research in historical geography.
Contents Part, I Modes of hurry -- chapter 1 Architectures of hurry -- An introductory essay / Richard Dennis Phillip Gordon Mackintosh Deryck W. Holdsworth -- chapter 2 'She scorches now and then' -- American women and the construction of 1890s cycling / Christina E. Dando -- chapter 3 The London bus -- An unlikely architecture of hurry / Richard Dennis -- chapter 4 The tales of two mobility infrastructures -- The street and the underground railway of Buenos Aires, 1880s-1940s / Dhan Zunino Singh -- chapter 5 Hurry-slow -- Automobility in Beijing, or a resurrection of the Kingdom of Bicycles? / Glen Norcliffe Boyang Gao -- part, II Local and global infrastructures -- chapter 6 An architecture of sluggishness -- Organic infrastructure and anti-mobility in Toronto, 1870-1910 / Phillip Gordon Mackintosh -- chapter 7 Keeping pedestrians in their place -- Technologies of segregation on the streets of East London / David Rooney -- chapter 8 Hurried exchanges -- Hybrid office buildings and their uses in the late nineteenth century / Deryck W. Holdsworth -- chapter 9 Shelter from the hurry? -- Hospitality in Montreal, 1836-1913 / Sherry Olson Mary Anne Poutanen -- part, III Practices of mobility -- chapter 10 Pedestrianism, money and time -- Mobilities of hurry in George Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft / Jason Finch -- chapter 11 'We're going to move ... I can't rush backwards and forwards, I'll go mad -- I am sure of it.' -- Representations of speed and haste in English life-writing, 1846-1958 / Colin G. Pooley Marilyn E. Pooley -- chapter 12 Epilogue -- Mobilizing hurrysome historical geographies / Phillip Gordon Mackintosh Deryck W. Holdsworth Richard Dennis
Summary "'Hurry' is an intrinsic component of modernity. It exists not only in tandem with modern constructions of mobility, speed, rhythm, and time-space compression, but also with infrastructures, technologies, practices, and emotions associated with the experience of the 'mobilizing modern'. 'Hurry' is not simply speed. It may result in congestion, slowing-down or inaction in the face of over-stimulus. Speeding-up is often competitive: faster traffic on better roads made it harder for pedestrians to cross, or for horse-drawn vehicles and cyclists to share the carriageway with motorised vehicles. Focussing on the cultural and material manifestations of 'hurry', the book's contributors analyse the complexities, tensions and contradictions inherent in the impulse to higher rates of circulation in modernizing cities. The collection includes but also goes beyond accounts of new forms of mobility (bicycles, buses, underground trains) and infrastructure (street layouts and surfaces, business exchanges, and hotels) to show how modernity's 'architectures of hurry' have been experienced, represented, and practised since the mid-nineteenth century. Ten case studies explore different expressions of 'hurry' across cities and urban regions in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, while substantial introductory and concluding chapters situate 'hurry' in the wider context of modernity and mobility studies and reflect on the future of 'hurry' in an ever-accelerating world. This diverse collection will be relevant to researchers, scholars and practitioners in the fields of planning, cultural and historical geography, urban history and urban sociology."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject City and town life.
Sociology, Urban.
City planning.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
City and town life
City planning
Sociology, Urban
Form Electronic book
Author Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon, 1960- editor.
Dennis, Richard, 1949- editor.
Holdsworth, Deryck, 1947- editor.
ISBN 9781315189604
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