基本説明
Examines how collective form of transport have contributed to the spatial and social evolution of towns and cities in various countries since the mid nineteenth century.
Full Description
From a variety of perspectives this volume demonstrates the continuing relevance of socio-historical inquiry on the relationship between public transport and urban development. By differentiating between the many roles of urban transport in the 19th century, it confirms that public transport was not directly linked to urban growth, and instead often had only a limited effect on the wider urban structure. In so doing it forces a reassessment of the received historiography that maintains that cheap public transport was essential to the spectacular growth of cites in the 19th century.
Contents
Technology, (sub)urban development and the social construction of urban transport, Colin Divall and Barbara Schmucki; Transport and (sub)urban development; Between politics and technology; transport as a factor of mass suburbanization in Europe 1890-1939, Paolo Capuzzo; The flawed economics and morality of the American uniform five-cent fare, Winstan Bond; Suburbanizing the masses for profit or welfare?; Conflict and cooperation between private and municipal interests in German cities 1890-1914, Dieter Schott; Suburban rail in Poland - decline at the dawn of suburbanization?, Jacek Wesolowski; Changing patterns of travel, transport and land ownership in a Victorian new town - Middlesbrough to 1939, Tony Carr; Professional paradigns of urban transport and traffic - Cities as traffic machines; urban transport planning in East and West Germany, Barbara Schmucki; Vision in solid form - a comparison between two solutions to the traffic problem in Stockholm 1941 and 1992, Tomas Ekman; Urban railway redivivus; image and ideology in Los Angeles, California, Robert C. Post; Accounting for the customers? - A tale of public transport in 1930s Coventry, Leslie Whitworth; Public transport and urban identities - Redefining the city; people, transportation and space in Philadelphia, 1876-1901, John H. Hepp, IV; Civic pride, urban identity and public transport, Ralph Harrington; Passenger connections - views of the intercity bus terminal in the USA, Margaret Walsh; The transit destinations of Japanese public space - the case of Nagoya station, Jilly Traganou.
