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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser |
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Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser
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Intro; Architectures of Hurryâ#x80;#x93;Mobilities, Cities and Modernity; Routledge Research in Historical Geography; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Architectures of Hurry: An Introductory Essay; Hurry and Mobility; Hurry and the Rhythm of Modern Life; The Vocabulary of Hurry; Speeding-Up and Slowing-Down; Scope and Structure of the Argument; Notes; Part I Modes of Hurry; 2 â#x80;#x98;She Scorches Now and Thenâ#x80;#x99;: American Women and the Construction of 1890S Cycling |
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Â#x80;#x98;More Bicycle Mad Than Everâ#x80;#x99;: The Rapid Diffusion of Bicyclingâ#x80;#x98;Her Sweetest Refugeâ#x80;#x99;: Women and Cycling; â#x80;#x98;A Passion for Scorchingâ#x80;#x99;: The Pleasures of Inappropriate Cycling; â#x80;#x98;All These Charms . . . Within Easy Reachâ#x80;#x99;: Hurrying To Relax; â#x80;#x98;The Immortally Blissful Scorcherâ#x80;#x99;: Considering Bicycling and the Speed of Modern Life; Notes; 3 the London Bus: An Unlikely Architecture of Hurry; Speed; The Imagination of Hurry; Names and Numbers; Boarding and Alighting; Conclusion; Notes |
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4 the Tales of Two Mobility Infrastructures: The Street and the Underground Railway of Buenos Aires, 1880Sâ#x80;#x93;1940SIntroduction; Street Views: Old, Congested, and Dangerous; Urban Reforms: The Street Layout and Alternative Spaces of Circulation; Underground Culture; Conclusions; Notes; 5 Hurry-Slow: Automobility in Beijing, or a Resurrection of the Kingdom of Bicycles?; Rise of the Kingdom of Bicycles; Open Doors, Automobility, and De-Bikification; The Beijing Olympics and the First Slowing; Countering Automobility; A New Dawn; Conclusion; Notes; Part II Local and Global Infrastructures |
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6 An Architecture of Sluggishness: Organic Infrastructure and Anti-Mobility in Toronto, 1870â#x80;#x93;1910Organic Infrastructure; Sluggishness; The Politics of Sluggishness: Local Improvements; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Keeping Pedestrians in Their Place: Technologies of Segregation on the Streets of East London; Introduction; Traffic on the East India Dock Road; Prohibition and the Police State; Segregation, Cosmopolitanism and â#x80;#x98;Cordoning Offâ#x80;#x99;; Conclusions; Notes; 8 Hurried Exchanges: Hybrid Office Buildings and Their Uses in the Late Nineteenth Century; Introduction; Precursors of Hurried Exchange |
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Redesigning the Perimeters of ExchangeThe Locational Shifts of the New York Produce Exchange; Notes; 9 Shelter From the Hurry? Hospitality in Montreal, 1836â#x80;#x93;1913; Introduction; An Argument in Lieu of Theory; Four Cases; Conclusion; Notes; Part III Practices of Mobility; 10 Pedestrianism, Money and Time: Mobilities of Hurry in George Gissingâ#x80;#x99;S the Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft; Mobilities, Hurry and Literary Texts; Techniques for Reading Pedestrianism in Modernity; The Fast (Masculine) Business Walk: Discursive Histories of Pedestrianism |
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Town and Country Pedestrianism: Walks for Work, Walks for Leisure |
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Print version record |
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Urban transportation -- Social aspects
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Urban transportation -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dennis, Richard, 1949- editor.
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Holdsworth, Deryck, 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351746595 |
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1351746596 |
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