After the car [Audiobook] download free by Kingsley Dennis
- Listen audiobook: After the car
- Author: Kingsley Dennis
- Release date: 2009/2/18
- Publisher: POLITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780745644226
- Rating: 7.86 of 10
- Votes: 789
- Review by: Frances Hamrick
- Review rating: 7.36 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/5
- Duration: 2H14M40S in 256 kbps (36 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, OPUS, MP4, MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA (compression ARC, ZIP, TAR, CBC, TAR.GZ, TAR.LZO, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 180
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 14M57S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Transportation Books, Transport Planning & Policy, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Social Forecasting, Future Studies
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 23.89 USD
- Dimensions: 143x198x13mm
- Weight: 274g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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