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Since 2003 the International Association for the History of
Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a trade-free
zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in the
now-flourishing study of the History of Mobility. In its Yearbook,
"Mobility in History," T2M surveys these developments in the form
of a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the
field, presenting synopses of recent research, international
reviews of research across many countries, thematic reviews, and
retrospective assessments of classic works in the area. "Mobility
in History" provides an essential and comprehensive overview of the
current situation of Mobility studies.
Since 2003 the International Association for the History of
Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a trade-free
zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in the
now-flourishing study of the History of Mobility. In its Yearbook,
Mobility in History, T2M surveys these developments in the form of
a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field,
presenting synopses of recent research, international reviews of
research across many countries, thematic reviews, and retrospective
assessments of classic works in the area. Mobility in History
provides an essential and comprehensive overview of the current
situation of Mobility studies. Volume 6 divides its review of
recent literature across polemical, theoretical, and geographical
categories, and concludes with a section on tourism.
Since 2003 the International Association for the History of
Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a trade-free
zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in the
now-flourishing study of the History of Mobility. In its Yearbook,
Mobility in History, T2M surveys these developments in the form of
a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field,
presenting synopses of recent research, international reviews of
research across many countries, thematic reviews, and retrospective
assessments of classic works in the area. Mobility in History
provides an essential and comprehensive overview of the current
situation of Mobility studies. This volume has a special section on
Bicycling, thematic articles on the electric car, tourism, and
waiting as a part of mobility, and review articles organized
geographically across 5 continents.
Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning,
internationally connected metropolis-and a sprawling, car-dependent
city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway,
which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris
County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, and a third major
loop is under construction nearly thirty miles out from the
historic core. Highways have driven every aspect of Houston's
postwar development, from the physical layout of the city to the
political process that has transformed both the transportation
network and the balance of power between governing elites and
ordinary citizens. Power Moves examines debates around the
planning, construction, and use of highway and public
transportation systems in Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how
Houstonians helped shape the city's growth by attending city
council meetings, writing letters to the highway commission, and
protesting the destruction of homes to make way for freeways, which
happened in both affluent and low-income neighborhoods. He
demonstrates that these assertions of what he terms
"infrastructural citizenship" opened up the transportation
decision-making process to meaningful input from the public and
gave many previously marginalized citizens a more powerful voice in
civic affairs. Power Moves also reveals the long-lasting results of
choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over other transit
options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians currently
face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the
consequences and opportunities created by past choices.
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