Table of Contents
Introduction, Jim Conley, Arlene Tigar McLaren; Part 1 Cultures of Automobility; Chapter 1 T-Bucket Terrors to Respectable Rebels: Hot Rodders and Drag Racers in Vancouver BC, 1948–1965, Catharine Genovese; Chapter 2 Automobile Advertisements: The Magical and the Mundane, Jim Conley; Chapter 3 SUV Advertising: Constructing Identities and Practices, Fiona McLean; Chapter 4 Bad Impressions: The Will to Concrete and the Projectile Economy of Cities, Derek Simons; Part 2 Risk and Regulation; Chapter 5 The Safety Race: Transitions to the Fourth Age of the Automobile, David MacGregor; Chapter 6 Implementing Restraint: Automobile Safety and the US Debate over Technological and Social Fixes, Jameson M. Wetmore; Chapter 7 ‘Mind That Child’: Childhood, Traffic and Walking in Automobilized Space, Damian Collins, Catherine Bean, Robin Kearns; Part 3 Inevitable Automobility?; Chapter 8 The Politics of Mobility: De-essentializing Automobility and Contesting Urban Space, Jason Henderson; Chapter 9 The Chilean Way to Modernity: Private Roads, Fast Cars, Neoliberal Bodies, Ricardo Trumper, Patricia Tomic; Chapter 10 Driven to Drive: Cars and the Problem of ‘Compulsory Consumption’, Dennis Soron; Part 4 Beyond the Car; Chapter 11 Mobility as a Positional Good: Implications for Transport Policy and Planning, Todd Litman; Chapter 12 The Global Intensification of Motorization and Its Impacts on Urban Social Ecologies, George Martin; Chapter 13 Post-Car Mobilities, Kingsley Dennis, John Urry;
