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The Experience of Suburban Modernity - How Private Transport Changed Interwar London (Hardcover)
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The Experience of Suburban Modernity - How Private Transport Changed Interwar London (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
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The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the
London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to
those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these
suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private
transport and new mobilities. Wealthier middle-class suburbanites
enjoyed driving at speed on new arterial roads, visiting roadhouses
for a transgressive night out, taking five-shilling flights from
the local airport, and joining cycling and motorcycle clubs. All
this fun came at a price for some in the form of thousands of
deaths in road accidents, plane crashes on suburban housing and in
the despoiling of the countryside through road development. This
book will be welcomed by academics and students working in suburban
studies, historical geography and interwar British history and can
also be enjoyed by anyone interested in the history of London. -- .
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