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Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (Hardcover)
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Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (Hardcover)
Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
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Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is
the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in
Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading
'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects,
Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial
form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the
similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting
to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of
automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging
conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom
offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment
(the M/E dilemma); and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese
comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural
understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. The result
is the first comparative history of mass automobility and its
environmental consequences between East and West.
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