Readings for today:
- Wolfgang Schivelbusch, "The American Railroad," in The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space.
- Gary Allan Tobin, “The Bicycle Boom of the 1890’s: The Development of Private Transportation and the Birth of the Modern Tourist,” Popular Culture, 7, 1974.
- André Gorz, “The Social Ideology of the Motorcar.” Le Sauvage, September-October 1973.
- Paul Gilroy, “Driving While Black.” In Car Cultures, ed. Daniel Miller. Berg, 2001, pp. 81-104.
- Zack Furness, Introduction, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility, Temple University Press (2010).
- Mimi Sheller and John Urry, "The City and the Car," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2000): 737-757.
- Jason Henderson, "Secessionist Automobility: Racism, Anti-Urbanism, and the Politics of Automobility in Atlanta, Georgia," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 30, No. 2 (June 2006): 293–307.
- Paul Rosen, "The Social Construction of Mountain Bikes: Technology and Postmodernity in the Cycle Industry," Social Studies of Science, Vol. 23, No. 3. (August, 1993), pp. 479-513.
- Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity.
- Steffen Bohm (ed), Against Automobility (a great collection of essays)
- Mimi Sheller, "Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car." Lancaster University, 2003.
- Zack Furness, "Critical Mass, Urban Space, and Vélomobility," Mobilities, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007): 299-319.
- NOW on PBS: Driven to Despair (video).
- National Public Radio: Trains see record ridership (audio).
- Tokyo's automatic bicycle garage.
- The dumbest transportation technology ever invented.
- The best transportation technology ever invented.
