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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Automobility"”.
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Race, public transit, and automobility in World War II Detroit
… The second part of the dissertation examines automobility in the war and immediate postwar era. Government propaganda and private advertisements portrayed driving as fundamental to the American way of life and upheld the white male driver as a symbol of freedom for which the United States was …
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Going in Circles: Male Cyclic Automobility in U.S. Fictions 1950-1970
From the time of horses and carriages, the ideal of moving freely and autonomously across the land has influenced U.S. society, particularly through its automobile culture, its advertising, and its fictions. In the decades following the end of World War II, fantasies of mobility became especially …
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By the Road: Fordism, Automobility, and Landscape Experience in the British Columbia Interior, 1920-1970
… the British Columbia Interior were structured by automobility – the system of objects, spaces, images, and practices that surrounded private automobiles and public roads. The Fordist state poured massive resources into the provincial road network during the period 1920 to 1970, and in the process …
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Crawl Space: Driving Over the Anthropocene in a Jeep
… I argue that a more nuanced understanding of automobility is necessary for any scholars who study both social practices and environmental sustainability. Following the work of the human geographer Doreen Massey, I explore how relations between humans and non-humans, the social and the natural, …
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Utopias of slow cycling : imagining a bicycle system
This research investigates post-automobility futures by exploring the mechanisms through which the bicycle could reconfigure urban mobilities and catalyse change towards slow living. Drawing upon readings in mobility and utopian studies, the thesis considers three complementary aspects that could …
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Standard values : change in urban arterial street design
… street standards have been based on increasing automobility, as if without end. Since the 1960s, liability concerns have guided significant changes in design standards, mostly based on passive driver safety design. Since then, legal action has given rise to bicycle and ADA-based design …
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Routine journeys, complex networks: media-centrism, the dispositif of road safety, and practices of commuting by car in everyday Ireland
… family, as well as by the types of social action automobility makes conceivable, facilitates, and disrupts. In addition, the research shows that while rational choices and rationality are a dominant framework within policy contexts, mediation about road safety is actually enmeshed in multiple …
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The energy futures of long-distance passenger rail in the United States
… Politically and materially, a persistence of automobility and aeromobility would likely leave little demand for locomobility outside of recreational uses and local/regional systems that facilitate capitalist exploitation of concentrated urban spaces. Conversely, any severe material and …
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Designing for flexible vehicle interiors through discrete architectural methods: Reframing the role of the designer in an automated and computational age
… with CASE. The research introduces ‘Discrete Automobility’, a design methodology that translates discrete construction logics - typically used to enable mass customisation, localised production, and component reusability in architecture - into the automotive domain. Through physical …
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"So we drove on towards death": release and mechanized violence in The Great Gatsby
… the automobile as a character, and further, how automobility enables release. My conclusion will synthesize the evidence in Fitzgerald’s novel to make observations about the disconnect, forged out of a new age of mechanized warfare, between individuals and their actions.
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Shelterskinspeed : last bastion for the reclusive brooding man
… of suburban America, created mostly by the automobility of the common worker, is increasingly evolving into a devoid and meaningless setting . Nowhere is the dreamer or the mystic so alone then within the conformity and uniformity of the social norm. "Shelterskinspeed" describes a design …
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School Travel for Families Living with Childhood Disability
The rise of automobility during the past century has contributed to children becoming more sedentary and isolated from public life and, correspondingly, exhibiting reduced independent mobility and a troubling range of chronic health problems. Concern over these issues has led to an increase in …
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Urban Mobility Transitions: Governing through Experimentation in Bristol and New York City
… systems, including transitions away from automobility. The research draws on a synthesis of sustainability transitions, transport studies and urban studies literature, and traces the outcomes of 108 experiments undertaken over two decades in two cities: Bristol (UK) and New York City (USA) …
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Making sense of media emotions around traffic reduction schemes: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and School Streets in news and social media
… anger discourse linked to threats against automobility, while School Streets narratives were framed through a culturally resonant fear for child safety. To provide a different context, social media discourse on Twitter was not consistently negative but was instead emotionally polarised. …
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Mind the gap: an evaluation of the organisational, practical and social influences on the implementation of cycling-specific policies in Aberdeen.
… the bicycle are often presented as a solution to automobility and dominance of the car, can cycling practices exist within such dominant structures and the associated socio-cultural perspectives? Located within the field of mobilities, this thesis evaluates the organisational, practical and social …
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Transit usage and urban form : lessons for transit reliant neighborhoods
… for efficient movement of the car and enhanced automobility have revealed themselves in the form of urban sprawl, energy depletion, air and noise pollution, climate change, road fatalities, and segregation of people by class and race. For the sake of social equity and sustainability, it is thus …
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Auto-America: The Automobile and American Art, Circa 1900-1950
… to keep the nation mobile. The greater sense of automobility includes the newly built roadways and bridges, automotive factories, garages, gasoline pumps, auto-camps and eventual motels, roadside restaurants that aimed to serve and accommodate a populace on the move. Artists working in the United …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… Chapter one, “Off the Rails: Potentials of Automobility in Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis,” establishes the transformative potential that early users saw in the automobile. I argue that Wharton’s A Motor-Flight Through France (1908), for instance, offers the motorcar as …