If Cars Could Walk: Postsocialist Streets in Transformation (Explorations in Mobility #7)
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- Synopsis
- In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural and symbolic values. The altered reality of people’s movements, replacing public transport, bicycles and other former ‘socialist’ modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn shapes their current political reality.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781805390329
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781805390312
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 07/14/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Ger Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Travel, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Ger Duijzings
- Edited by:
- Tauri Tuvikene
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