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Culture and mobility /

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 mode...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Benesch, Klaus (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, 2013.
Colección:Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie ; Bd. 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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