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Author : Matthew Paterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Automobile Politics written by Matthew Paterson and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of the car in contemporary society and its contribution to environmental problems.
Author : James A. Dunn
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815707202
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Driving Forces written by James A. Dunn and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To its critics, the automobile is a voracious consumer of irreplaceable energy resources, a leading polluter of the environment, and a destroyer of cohesive communities. The most outspoken opponents call for greater regulations and restrictions to ultimately replace the automobile as the country's primary means of transportation. But their proposals all ignore one simple fact: Americans love their cars! Millions of citizens have made the automobile the most successful method of mass transportation ever developed, and they are not about to give up the personal mobility it offers. This book presents the controversial view that, for the vast majority of Americans, the automobile is not the problem, but the solution to transportation needs. While acknowledging the automobile's significant drawbacks, the author refutes much of the shrill rhetoric and doomsday predictions of its opponents. He takes a skeptical look at the major policy initiatives to tax, regulate, and provide alternatives to the automobile, pointing out that any policies designed to remove Americans from their cars without offering them a superior means of mobility are "worse than useless" and doomed to failure. The book offers suggestions and guidelines for politically realistic initiatives that preserve the benefits of the automobile while building public support for policies that will reduce its negative effects on energy use and the environment.
Author : Michael R. Lemov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611477468
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Car Safety Wars written by Michael R. Lemov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.
Author : Alan Walks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317659686
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility written by Alan Walks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations? Can our cities be made more sustainable, and can environmental, economic and social collapse be staved off through changes in urban form and travel behaviour? How might rising indebtedness and the recent series of financial crises be related to automobile dependence and patterns of urban automobile use? To what extent does the system and economy of automobility factor in the production of urban socio-spatial inequalities, and how might these inequalities in mobility be understood and measured? What can we learn from the politics of mobility and social movements within cities? What is the role of automobility, and auto-dependence, in differentiating groups, both within cities and rural areas, and among transnational migrants moving across international borders? These are just some of the questions this book addresses. This volume provides a holistic and reflexive account of the role played by automobility in producing, reproducing, and differentiating social, economic and political life in the contemporary city, as well as the role played by the city in producing and reproducing auto-mobile inequalities. The first section, titled Driving Vulnerability, deals with issues of global importance related to economic, social, financial, and environmental sustainability and resilience, and socialization. The second section, Driving Inequality, is concerned with understanding the role played by automobility in producing urban socio-spatial inequalities, including those rooted in accessibility to work, migration status and ethnic concentration, and new measures of mobility-based inequality derived from the concept of effective speed. The third section, titled, Driving Politics, explores the politics of mobility in particular places, with an eye to demonstrating both the relevance of the politics of mobility for influencing and reinforcing actually existing neoliberalisms, and the kinds of politics that might allow for reform or restructuring of the auto-mobile city into one that is more socially, politically and environmentally just. In the conclusion to the book Walks draws on the findings of the other chapters to comment on the relationship between automobility, neoliberalism and citizenship, and to lay out strategies for dealing with the urban car system.
Author : Edward L. Lascher Jr.
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589014565
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform written by Edward L. Lascher Jr. and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American state and Canadian provincial governments have dealt with rapidly rising auto insurance rates in different ways over the last two decades, a difference many attribute to variances in political pressure exerted by interest groups such as trial attorneys and insurance companies. Edward L. Lascher, Jr., argues that we must consider two additional factors: the importance of politicians’ beliefs about the potential success of various solutions and the role of governmental institutions. Using case studies from both sides of the border, Lascher shows how different explanations of the problem and different political structures affect insurance reform. In his conclusion, Lascher moves beyond auto insurance to draw implications for regulation and policymaking in other areas.
Author : Zack Furness
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592136148
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book One Less Car written by Zack Furness and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
Author : Ralph Nader
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unsafe at Any Speed written by Ralph Nader and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael L. Bromley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786429526
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909-1913 written by Michael L. Bromley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Howard Taft declared, "I am sure the automobile coming in as a toy of the wealthier class is going to prove the most useful of them all to all classes, rich and poor." Unlike his predecessors, who made public their disdain for the automobile, Taft saw the automobile industry as a great source of wealth for this country. The first president to acquire a car in office (Congress granted him three automobiles), Taft is responsible for there being a White House garage in 1909. This is a meticulously researched reappraisal of the oft-maligned Taft presidency focusing particularly on his cars, his relationship to the automobile and the role of the automobile in the politics of his day. Appendices provide information on the White House garage and stable, Taft's speech to the Automobile Club of America and a glossary of terms and names.
Author : Jason Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429814178
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Street Fights in Copenhagen written by Jason Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport. This book considers the underlying political conditions that enabled cycling to appeal to such a wide range of citizens in Copenhagen and asks how this can be replicated elsewhere. Despite Copenhagen’s global reputation, its success has been a result of a long political struggle and is far from completely secure. Car use in Denmark is increasing, including in Copenhagen's suburbs, and new developments in Copenhagen include more parking for cars. There is a political tension in Copenhagen over the spaces for cycling, the car, and public transit. In considering examples of backlashes and conflicts over street space in Copenhagen, this book argues that the kinds of debates happening in Copenhagen are very similar to the debates regularly occurring in cities throughout the world. This makes Copenhagen more, not less, comparable to many cities around the world, including cities in the United States. This book will appeal to upper-level undergraduates and graduates in urban geography, city planning, transportation, environmental studies, as well as transportation advocates, urban policy-makers, and anyone concerned about climate change and looking to identify paths forward in their own cities and localities.
Author : John P. Tuman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315502844
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry written by John P. Tuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at union responses to the changes in the Latin American car industry in the last 15 years. It considers the impact of the shift towards export production and regional integration, and the effect of political changes on union reponses.
