عنوان

The traffic problem :

شماره

TLets792486

عنوان اصلي

The traffic problem :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Rooney, David John

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

geographies, politics and technologies of congestion in twentieth-century London

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Royal Holloway, University of London

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Royal Holloway, University of London

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

This thesis examines traffic congestion in twentieth-century London. Ideas about movement, mobility and circulation in the capital's streets intersect with a broad range of discourses and practices, from planning to policing, and from engineering to economics. Within these discourses, characterizations of congestion are political acts, and proposed solutions therefore represent political as well as geographical and technological world views. The thesis opens with an examination of the experience of congestion in twentieth-century London, setting up the 'traffic problem', before surveying the ways traffic congestion has been considered in the history of urban planning, the dominant discourse in which this topic is explored. Common themes have emerged from this close reading of the planning literature, including geographies of governance and the relationship between London-wide bodies and local authorities; technologies of congestion and notions of grids, surveillance, verticality and technological progress; segregation and control of different classes of people and vehicles; and the politics and financing of roads and mobility. The subsequent four chapters therefore examine 'solutions' of the traffic problem from a set of disciplinary points of view suggested by these themes, namely police officers, highway engineers, systems analysts, and political economists (although the boundaries between the groups are highly permeable). In each instance, detailed case studies of geographical places and technological structures are used to ground the discussions of disciplinary discourses and point to their limits. A fifth chapter then returns to the professional planning discourse and draws together these themes, examining how plans to reduce congestion in London have been negotiated into reality. The concluding chapter looks at the situation in London today and in the near future. It includes accounts from current practitioners in each of the disciplinary fields studied, and gives a sense of the long-term continuity of these wider concerns - the fact that characterizations of congestion are themselves historical artefacts which travel through time.

موضوع مستند نشده

Congestion

موضوع مستند نشده

London

موضوع مستند نشده

Planning

موضوع مستند نشده

Traffic

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Rooney, David John

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Royal Holloway, University of London

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y