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Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2007
ISBN
1405130725, 978-1-4051-3072-1, 978-1-4051-3073-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4210109 bytes)
Series
RGS-IBG Book Series
Edition
1
Pages
320\318
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00

Description

Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England’s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography Contains 38 high quality illustrations Based on extensive, original archive work

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