Driving spaces : a cultural-historical geography of England's M1 Motorway /
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| Author / Creator: | Merriman, Peter. |
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA ; Oxford, UK : Blackwell, 2007. |
| Description: | xiv, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | RGS-IBG book series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6631339 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Driving Spaces
- Mobilities
- Driving, Space, Social Relations
- Driving, Landscape, Visuality
- Geographies of the Modern Road
- Contents of the Book
- 2. Envisioning British Motorways
- Motoring and the Motor-Car Way, 1896-1930
- The German Autobahnen: The Politics and Aesthetics of a Nation's Roads
- Motorways for Britain? National Plans, National Defence
- Motorways, War and Reconstruction
- Motorways and the British Landscape
- 3. Designing and Landscaping the M1
- Legislating and Campaigning: Towards a National Motorway Network
- Locating the M1: Regional Planning, Local Protests and the Authority of the Engineer
- Landscape Architecture and the Post-war, Modern Road
- 'A New Look at the English Landscape': Landscape Architecture, Movement and the Aesthetics of a Modern Motorway
- Towards a Road Style: Service Areas' in the Landscape
- 'Cutting Holes in the Landscape': Britain's Motorway Signs
- 4. Constructing the M1
- 'Operation Motorway': Constructing the M1 Motorway
- Song of a Road: Folk Song, Working-Class Culture and the Labour of a Motorway
- 5. Driving, Consuming and Governing the M1
- Motorway Driving, Embodiment, Competence
- 'Motorway Madness': Driving, Governing, Expertise
- Motorway Modern: Consuming the M1
- Motorway Service Areas and the Motorist-Consumer
- Assessing the M1's Performance: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scientific Experiments, Accidents
- 6. Motorways and Driving since the 1960s
- The 'M1 Corridor'
- Motorways and 'the Environment'
- Dystopian and Marginal Landscapes?
- Placeless Environments?
- Placing the M1 in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Appendix. Archival Sources
- Notes
- References
- Index
