Installing Automobility Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities

• Hoofdauteur: Gopakumar, Govind (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Reeks: Urban and Industrial Environments
• Onderwerpen: Urban & municipal planning; Motor cars: general interest; Transportation; Bengaluru; Bangalore; India; streets; mobility; justice; urban; congestion; politics; technopolitical; constellation; regime; infrastructurescape; citizenship; shabby automobility; performativity; affordance; Global South; case study; twenty-first century; history; longue durée; motorization; cars; transport; roads; cities; environment; infrastructure; traffic; cityscape; landscape; Karnataka; Mysore kingdom; South Asia; Asia; vehicles; scapes; messy; dystopia; instrumentality; discourse; privilege; power; disenfranchising; unlocking; reclaiming; colonialism; post-colonial; affordability
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An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global So...