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Culture and mobility / edited by Klaus Benesch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie ; Band 15.
- Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie ; Band 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation--Social aspects--Congresses.
- Transportation.
- Civilization, Modern--Congresses.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What connects the Baltimore Washington International Airport and South Korea's Songdo International Business District? What are the cultural narratives that unfold from their bold visions of mobility and of the city in transit and transition? Put another way, what are the relations between modernity, mobile lifestyles, and urban spaces as we move deeper into what the French sociologist Marc Augé has called the age of 'supermodernity'? Perhaps more importantly, are there alternative ways of thinking about mobility and the future of society in a rapidly shrinking, globally interconnected and, at
- Contents:
- Preface; Table of Contents; Culture and Mobility: An Introduction; Klaus Benesch - We Are All in Motion; Architecture; John D. Kasarda - Aerotropolis: Business Mobility and Urban Competitiveness in the 21st Century; Anke Ortlepp - (Post-)Modern Architectures: American Airports and the Limits of Mobility; Geography; Peter V. Hall - "Resolving" Scalar and Spatial Mismatches in North American Freight Logistics; Philip Vannini - Time Machines: Islands, Ferries, and the Advent of a New Way of Life; Technology
- Klaus Benesch - ""Our Bikes Are Us"": Speed, Motorcycles, and the American Tradition of a 'Democratic' TechnologyTed Bishop - ""Tempo Giusto"": The Art of the Slow Ride; Art; David T. Courtwright - Road Movie: The Legacies of ""Easy Rider""; Alexandra Ganser - Reading Multiple Mobilities in Chuck Palahniuk's ""Fugitives and Refugees""; Ideology; François Specq - Thoreau's Geographies of (Im)mobility; Notes on Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9783825373887
- 3825373886
- OCLC:
- 881886804
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