Книга "After the Car" ("После автомобиля") от Денниса и Урри предлагает провокационный взгляд на будущее транспорта. Авторы утверждают, что эра автомобиля подходит к концу, и в ближайшие десятилетия мы увидим появление новой транспортной системы. В книге рассматриваются многие факторы, включая глобальное потепление и его последствия, исчерпание запасов нефти, рост населения и увеличение числа цифровых технологий в экономике и социальной жизни.
Авторы обсуждают изменения в технологиях, политике, экономике и обществе, убеждая в том, что настоящая система автомобильного транспорта должна быть пересмотрена и переосмыслена. Они также описывают возможные сценарии будущего "пост-автомобильной" эры, такие как "локальная устойчивость", "региональный военный конфликт" и "цифровые сети контроля".
Книга будет интересна планировщикам, политикам, социологам, футурологам, работникам промышленности и широкому кругу читателей. Некоторые называют 20-й век веком автомобиля. Теперь этот век подходит к концу, и наступает время перемен.
John Urry's stunning new book, After the Car: Disaffection and the End of the Automobile Empire, poses an irresistibly provocative question: does the automobile have a future? This groundbreaking book draws upon recently emerging academic research spanning disciplines as varied as climatology, sociology and communication technologies, to argue that global forces are undermining one of the largest components of our transportation systems—the automobile. Essentially, Urry investigates what impact global warming, depletion of oil, digitalization, and growing populations might have on our contemporary motor vehicle culture, both positively and negatively.
This groundbreaking work is not an academic treatise but a fresh, readable look at an issue many have dismissed as trivial in recent years. Through engaging and easily readable narratives, paced with wide, inspired visualizations, Professor Urry shows that the factors influencing our decision as we exit from the backseat of our cars comprise enormous, potentially cataclysmic social, technological, and economic forces. By raising these uncertainties, this book helps illuminate why we must rethink our mobility preferences, from mode choice—which modes should we increasingly rely on—to who is to be held accountable and how we ought to exercise our agency in navigating the post-automobile world.
After The Car is a book not to be missed by futurologists and transportation professionals, geographers and policy-makers, sociologists and economists, philosophers and communications scholars, industrial designers and environmentalists, civil rights activists and apathetic road users past and future. It is also essential reading for anyone who follows international affairs, environmental matters, or is curious about where the world is heading in terms of transportation issues.
Read After The Car and learn why, perhaps, our propulsive square wheels will soon need to orient themselves to higher ground—or drive us marching off to new, uncertain frontiers.
Электронная Книга «After the Car» написана автором Urry John в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780745675275
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It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several major processes are shaping the future of how we travel, including: Global warming and its many global consequences Peaking of oil supplies Increased digitisation of many aspects of economic and social life Massive global population increases The authors look at changes in technology, policy, economy and society, and make a convincing argument for a future where, by necessity, the present car system will be re-designed and re-engineered. Yet the book also suggests that there are some hugely bleak dilemmas facing the twenty first century. The authors lay out what they consider to be possible 'post-car' future scenarios. These they describe as 'local sustainability', 'regional warlordism' and 'digital networks of control'. After The Car will be of great interest to planners, policy makers, social scientists, futurologists, those working in industry, as well as general readers. Some have described the 20th Century as the century of the car. Now that century has come to a close – and things are about to change.
