Autokind Vs Mankind

Author : Kenneth Schneider
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595193479

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Autokind Vs. Mankind by Kenneth Schneider Pdf

An automotive empire controls the forms of our cities and therefore dominates the lives of people. Automobility limits citizenship, depriving the poor, elderly, children, and handicapped of the most ordinary human rights. Using contemporary sources, Kenneth Schneider traces the rise of the automobile from "the toy of the rich" to "the necessity of the poor," and "the deprivation of all." He stresses the irony of how early automobile enthusiasm resulted in today's harsh auto-dominated realities: cities converted from human to automotive scale, the loss of urban open space to consumptive suburban sprawl, the billions of hours lost in traffic congestion annually, a greater human loss of life to accidents than from all America's wars, the promoted consumption of declining fuel and other resources. Human values and the content of civilization are rocked asunder by commandments to increase exclusive automobile travel. Whereas the basic value of city life derives from minimizing the need to travel, cities today are stretched to demand ever more travel in misshaped human environments that ironically promote a negative result of economic growth. But human beings are resilient and do learn. They can reverse course and build vibrant environments in the image of their own scale, visions, and values. Autokind Vs. Mankind aims at that potential.

Author : Kenneth R. Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : OCLC:1020230570

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Autokind Vs. Mankind by Kenneth R. Schneider Pdf

Author : Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher : Crown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780307819970

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Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay Pdf

Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were designed to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen. Now even drivers themselves suffer, as cars choke the highways and pollution and congestion have replaced the fresh air of the open road. Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.

Author : David Lanier Lewis,Laurence Goldstein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 047208044X

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The Automobile and American Culture by David Lanier Lewis,Laurence Goldstein Pdf

Presents essays on all phases of the American automobile industry and the effect of its product on individual lives and the culture of the society.

Author : Jacques Lévy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351892698

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The City by Jacques Lévy Pdf

The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so. The city is thus a new topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this renewed field? Drawing together a wide range of texts from philosophers, sociologists and economist as well as geographers and urban planners, this volume provides a theoretical framework within which this question can begin to be explored.

Author : Preston L Schiller,Jeffrey Kenworthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781317289142

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An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation by Preston L Schiller,Jeffrey Kenworthy Pdf

Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation illustrates a new planning paradigm for sustainable transportation through case studies from around the world with hundreds of valuable resources and references, color photos, graphics and tables. The second edition builds and expands upon the highly acclaimed first edition, with new chapters on urban design and urban, regional and intercity public transportation, as well as expanded chapters on automobile dependence and equity issues; automobile cities and the car culture; the history of sustainable and unsustainable transportation; the interrelatedness of technologies, infrastructure energy and functionalities; and public policy and public participation and exemplary places, people and programs around the globe. Among the many valuable additions are discussions of autonomous vehicles (AVs), electric vehicles (EVs), airport cities, urban fabrics, urban heat island effects and mobility as a service (MaaS). New case studies show global exemplars of sustainable transportation, including several from Asia, a case study of participative and deliberative public involvement, as well as one describing life in the Vauban ecologically planned community of Freiburg, Germany. Students in affiliated sustainability disciplines, planners, policymakers and concerned citizens will find many provides practical techniques to innovate and transform transportation.

Author : Dan Albert
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780393292756

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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless by Dan Albert Pdf

Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive. Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into responsible drivers, are we ready to be a nation of passengers? In Are We There Yet?, Dan Albert combines historical scholarship with personal narrative to explore how car culture has suffused America’s DNA. The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built our economy, won our wars, and shaped our democratic creed as it moved us about. Driver’s ed made teenagers into citizens; auto repair made boys into men. Crusades against the automobile are nothing new. Its arrival sparked battles over street space, pitting the masses against the millionaires who terrorized pedestrians. When the masses got cars of their own, they learned to love driving too. During World War II, Washington nationalized Detroit and postwar Americans embraced car and country as if they were one. Then came 1960s environmentalism and the energy crises of the 1970s. Many predicted, even welcomed, the death of the automobile. But many more rose to its defense. They embraced trucker culture and took to Citizen Band radios, demanding enough gas to keep their big boats afloat. Since the 1980s, the car culture has triumphed and we now drive more miles than ever before. Have we reached the end of the road this time? Fewer young people are learning to drive. Ride hailing is replacing car buying, and with electrification a long and noble tradition of amateur car repair—to say nothing of the visceral sound of gasoline exploding inside a big V8—will come to an end. When a robot takes over the driver’s seat, what’s to become of us? Are We There Yet? carries us from muddy tracks to superhighways, from horseless buggies to driverless electric vehicles. Like any good road trip, it’s an adventure so fun you don’t even notice how much you’ve learned along the way.

Author : Ginger Strand
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780292726376

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Killer on the Road by Ginger Strand Pdf

Looks at the correlation between the construction of the Interstate Highway system and the rise in the national murder rate, highlighting specific killers and how the highway system changed America.

Author : Donald Shoup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351178921

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The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup Pdf

One of the American Planning Association’s most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking – namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor, will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Join the swelling ranks of Shoupistas by picking up this book today. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again.

Author : Donald Shoup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351178679

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High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup Pdf

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion, but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. The author proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking.

Author : L. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403984548

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Borders of Socialism by L. Siegelbaum Pdf

This fascinating book argues that in Russia the relations between culture and nation, art and life, commodity and trash, often diverged from familiar Western European or American versions of modernity. The essays show how public and private overlapped and shaped each other, creating new perspectives on individuals and society in the Soviet Union.

Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801446384

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Cars for Comrades by Lewis H. Siegelbaum Pdf

Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic--and important--technologies and a novel approach to understanding the USSR.

Author : William Gorham,Nathan Glazer
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Urban Predicament by William Gorham,Nathan Glazer Pdf

Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781800735644

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Pacific Automobilism by Gijs Mom Pdf

The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West’s media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.

Author : Tom Lewis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467837

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Divided Highways by Tom Lewis Pdf

In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts the development of the Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and local communities against engineers and federal administrators. This is a story of America's hopes for its future life and the realities of its present condition. It is an engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape-and the daily lives of Americans. In this updated edition of Divided Highways, Lewis brings his story of the Interstate system up to date, concluding with Boston's troubled and yet triumphant Big Dig project, the growing antipathy for big federal infrastructure projects, and the uncertain economics of highway projects both present and future.