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INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Introduction: waiting, cultural studies and the quotidian -- Reading the bus stop -- Cultural studies and everyday life -- The everyday and the public sphere -- Rethinking everyday life -- Ways of reading -- Workspace: office life and commuting -- The rise of the Angestellten -- Exploring office space -- The fall of the middle manager -- Ethnographies of commuting -- On the Underground -- Urban space: the myths and meanings of traffic -- Myths of the road -- The cost of congestion -- The secret history of the traffic light -- The parking wars -- Watching the pedestrians -- Non-places: supermodernity and the everyday -- The road to nowhere -- Mapping Mondeo land -- Roadside cultures -- Imagining the new town -- Wish we weren't here: boring postcards -- Living space: housing, the market and the everyday -- Houses and the pseudo-everyday -- Location, location, location -- The limits of tower-block chic -- The politics of housebuilding -- House viewings -- Reading the market -- Conclusion: the everyday and cultural change.