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Architectures of Hurry-Mobilities, Cities and Modernity (Hardcover)
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Architectures of Hurry-Mobilities, Cities and Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Historical Geography
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'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
motorized vehicles. Focusing 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, and 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.
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