Johzen Takeuchi
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780198292746
- eISBN:
- 9780191603891
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198292740.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter deals with the manufacturing industry for Western products that emerged after the opening of the treaty ports. These goods include brushes, buttons, matches, knitted goods, soaps, and ...
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This chapter deals with the manufacturing industry for Western products that emerged after the opening of the treaty ports. These goods include brushes, buttons, matches, knitted goods, soaps, and bicycles. Although the modern factories that made these products played significant roles in the early stages of industrialization, they eventually went into decline. The combination of modern technology and traditional skills formed another route to industrialization in modern Japan.Less
This chapter deals with the manufacturing industry for Western products that emerged after the opening of the treaty ports. These goods include brushes, buttons, matches, knitted goods, soaps, and bicycles. Although the modern factories that made these products played significant roles in the early stages of industrialization, they eventually went into decline. The combination of modern technology and traditional skills formed another route to industrialization in modern Japan.
Steven Huebner
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195189544
- eISBN:
- 9780199868476
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189544.003.0023
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter focuses on Ernest Chausson's opera, Le Roi Arthus. Nineteenth-century musical works invite biographical readings to varying degrees, depending on professional and critical context, ...
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This chapter focuses on Ernest Chausson's opera, Le Roi Arthus. Nineteenth-century musical works invite biographical readings to varying degrees, depending on professional and critical context, and/or whatever traces of compositional intent are discernible. It is argued that the tone of Le Roi Arthus has triggered such connections partly because of its première on 30 November 1903 in Brussels, four years after Chausson's premature death in a freak bicycle accident at age 44.Less
This chapter focuses on Ernest Chausson's opera, Le Roi Arthus. Nineteenth-century musical works invite biographical readings to varying degrees, depending on professional and critical context, and/or whatever traces of compositional intent are discernible. It is argued that the tone of Le Roi Arthus has triggered such connections partly because of its première on 30 November 1903 in Brussels, four years after Chausson's premature death in a freak bicycle accident at age 44.
Ellen Gruber Garvey
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195108224
- eISBN:
- 9780199855070
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195108224.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter takes up the question of how advertising and fiction interacted in relation to a single commodity. When the safety bicycle in the 1890s made bicycling accessible to women, wheelwomen ...
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This chapter takes up the question of how advertising and fiction interacted in relation to a single commodity. When the safety bicycle in the 1890s made bicycling accessible to women, wheelwomen found themselves riding through contested terrain. The new mobility that bicycles offered was both attractive to feminists and the target of attack by conservative forces. By working together within the larger framework of the magazine, advertising and fiction made a seemingly threatening new product attractive to potential users. While ads could address a specific manifestation of the threat by promoting a new product like the “hygienic” saddle, the larger issues raised by women's increased mobility couldn't be headed off as easily. Magazine stories took on those issues by rewriting the product's apparent threat to traditional roles. They subsumed the potential conflict within a discourse of consumption.Less
This chapter takes up the question of how advertising and fiction interacted in relation to a single commodity. When the safety bicycle in the 1890s made bicycling accessible to women, wheelwomen found themselves riding through contested terrain. The new mobility that bicycles offered was both attractive to feminists and the target of attack by conservative forces. By working together within the larger framework of the magazine, advertising and fiction made a seemingly threatening new product attractive to potential users. While ads could address a specific manifestation of the threat by promoting a new product like the “hygienic” saddle, the larger issues raised by women's increased mobility couldn't be headed off as easily. Magazine stories took on those issues by rewriting the product's apparent threat to traditional roles. They subsumed the potential conflict within a discourse of consumption.
Evan Friss
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226210919
- eISBN:
- 9780226211077
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226211077.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This book explores the American cycling city of the 1890s. It is a city lost in history, but one in which bicycles and their champions influenced urban design and city life. Paved roads, bicycle ...
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This book explores the American cycling city of the 1890s. It is a city lost in history, but one in which bicycles and their champions influenced urban design and city life. Paved roads, bicycle paths, and reconceived traffic laws signaled what many believed to be was the beginning of a new era. The millions of people who called themselves cyclists envisioned that the bicycle would usher in a city that was cleaner, easier to navigate and would give residents shorter commutes, new recreational outlets, and improved health, both mental and physical. What they did not anticipate was that bicycles would fall out of favor so suddenly. Ultimately, the cycling city crashed, and along with it, the future of cycling in the United States.Less
This book explores the American cycling city of the 1890s. It is a city lost in history, but one in which bicycles and their champions influenced urban design and city life. Paved roads, bicycle paths, and reconceived traffic laws signaled what many believed to be was the beginning of a new era. The millions of people who called themselves cyclists envisioned that the bicycle would usher in a city that was cleaner, easier to navigate and would give residents shorter commutes, new recreational outlets, and improved health, both mental and physical. What they did not anticipate was that bicycles would fall out of favor so suddenly. Ultimately, the cycling city crashed, and along with it, the future of cycling in the United States.
Evan Friss
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226210919
- eISBN:
- 9780226211077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226211077.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter charts the development of bicycle paths. Special attention is given to the Coney Island Cycle Path, an early example that set a model for others, and the California Cycle-Way, an ...
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This chapter charts the development of bicycle paths. Special attention is given to the Coney Island Cycle Path, an early example that set a model for others, and the California Cycle-Way, an elevated cycle path that epitomized some of the bolder plans to create a cycling network. Finally, the chapter explores the ways in which bicycle paths fragmented the emergent bicycle coalition, some of whom saw the paths as the greatest achievement of cyclists, others of whom thought the paths would detract from the good roads movement and undermine the bicycle's status as a legitimate vehicle.Less
This chapter charts the development of bicycle paths. Special attention is given to the Coney Island Cycle Path, an early example that set a model for others, and the California Cycle-Way, an elevated cycle path that epitomized some of the bolder plans to create a cycling network. Finally, the chapter explores the ways in which bicycle paths fragmented the emergent bicycle coalition, some of whom saw the paths as the greatest achievement of cyclists, others of whom thought the paths would detract from the good roads movement and undermine the bicycle's status as a legitimate vehicle.
Susan W. Brenner
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195333480
- eISBN:
- 9780199855353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333480.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter traces the evolution of machine technologies. They replace human effort with artificial, machine effort and let humans accomplish things that were not possible before. It traces the ...
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This chapter traces the evolution of machine technologies. They replace human effort with artificial, machine effort and let humans accomplish things that were not possible before. It traces the utilization of “use” rules to control the defective implementation of these technologies; it uses bicycle technology to illustrate how societies simply relied on an ad hoc extrapolation of the approach they utilized for specialist technologies to control the defective implementation of a non-specialist technology. The chapter demonstrates how societies and lawmakers came to focus primarily on technology in devising rules that were intended to prevent harms that might ensue from the introduction of new technologies.Less
This chapter traces the evolution of machine technologies. They replace human effort with artificial, machine effort and let humans accomplish things that were not possible before. It traces the utilization of “use” rules to control the defective implementation of these technologies; it uses bicycle technology to illustrate how societies simply relied on an ad hoc extrapolation of the approach they utilized for specialist technologies to control the defective implementation of a non-specialist technology. The chapter demonstrates how societies and lawmakers came to focus primarily on technology in devising rules that were intended to prevent harms that might ensue from the introduction of new technologies.
Lena Wånggren
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474416269
- eISBN:
- 9781474434645
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474416269.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the ...
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This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ‘crisis in gender’ or ‘sexual anarchy’ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine.
This book explores the interlinking of gender and technology in writings by overlooked authors such as Grant Allen, Tom Gallon, H. G. Wells, Margaret Todd and Mathias McDonnell Bodkin. As the book demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in a technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.Less
This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ‘crisis in gender’ or ‘sexual anarchy’ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine.
This book explores the interlinking of gender and technology in writings by overlooked authors such as Grant Allen, Tom Gallon, H. G. Wells, Margaret Todd and Mathias McDonnell Bodkin. As the book demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in a technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.
Edward L. Ayers
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195086898
- eISBN:
- 9780199854226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195086898.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The chapter discusses the norms of life in the New South particularly concerning women. The standards of clothing and fashion changed and bicycles became all the rage for Southern women. The idea of ...
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The chapter discusses the norms of life in the New South particularly concerning women. The standards of clothing and fashion changed and bicycles became all the rage for Southern women. The idea of women's right of suffrage was first tackled during these times. It was also during this time that education became the center of discussion and was seen as the ticket of the Southern blacks to a life of better treatment by the whites. This chapter also touches on the events in the Chicago World's Fair and the Negro Building, the latter being the only place within the fair that the Negroes could actually enter and buy goods. The chapter also discusses Booker T. Washington and his viewpoint and speeches regarding the relationship of blacks and whites.Less
The chapter discusses the norms of life in the New South particularly concerning women. The standards of clothing and fashion changed and bicycles became all the rage for Southern women. The idea of women's right of suffrage was first tackled during these times. It was also during this time that education became the center of discussion and was seen as the ticket of the Southern blacks to a life of better treatment by the whites. This chapter also touches on the events in the Chicago World's Fair and the Negro Building, the latter being the only place within the fair that the Negroes could actually enter and buy goods. The chapter also discusses Booker T. Washington and his viewpoint and speeches regarding the relationship of blacks and whites.
Donald Palmer
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199573592
- eISBN:
- 9780191738715
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573592.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, Corporate Governance and Accountability
This chapter describes the two main perspectives on organizational wrongdoing, the abnormal and normal perspectives, in detail. It also describes the two main approaches to explaining wrongdoing, the ...
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This chapter describes the two main perspectives on organizational wrongdoing, the abnormal and normal perspectives, in detail. It also describes the two main approaches to explaining wrongdoing, the dominant and alternative approaches, in depth. The chapter also establishes the link between the abnormal and normal perspectives on organizational wrongdoing, the dominant and alternative approaches to explaining the causes of wrongdoing, and the eight specific explanations of wrongdoing that form the core of the book. The eight specific explanations focus on rational choice, culture, ethical decision-making, administrative systems, situational social influence, power structures, accidental behavior, and the social control of wrongdoing. The chapter illustrates the two approaches to explaining organizational wrongdoing with a detailed description of a professional bicycle racer's experience with the use of banned performance-enhancing substances. It concludes with a few remarks about the book's overarching message.Less
This chapter describes the two main perspectives on organizational wrongdoing, the abnormal and normal perspectives, in detail. It also describes the two main approaches to explaining wrongdoing, the dominant and alternative approaches, in depth. The chapter also establishes the link between the abnormal and normal perspectives on organizational wrongdoing, the dominant and alternative approaches to explaining the causes of wrongdoing, and the eight specific explanations of wrongdoing that form the core of the book. The eight specific explanations focus on rational choice, culture, ethical decision-making, administrative systems, situational social influence, power structures, accidental behavior, and the social control of wrongdoing. The chapter illustrates the two approaches to explaining organizational wrongdoing with a detailed description of a professional bicycle racer's experience with the use of banned performance-enhancing substances. It concludes with a few remarks about the book's overarching message.
Louis A. Pérez Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469631301
- eISBN:
- 9781469631325
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631301.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Louis A. Pérez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering ...
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Louis A. Pérez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the sugar production boom and prior to independence. Contributing to the cultural history of capitalism in Latin America, Pérez argues that such creoles were cosmopolitans with powerful transnational affinities and an abiding identification with modernity. This period of Cuban history is usually viewed through a political lens, but Pérez shows how moral, social, and cultural changes that resulted from market forces also contributed to the collapse of the Spanish colonial administration. Pérez highlights women’s centrality in this process, showing how criollas adapted to new modes of self-representation as a means of self-fulfillment. Increasing opportunities for middle-class women’s public presence and social participation was both cause and consequence of expanding consumerism and of women’s challenges to prevailing gender hierarchies. Seemingly simple actions--riding a bicycle, for example, or deploying the abanico, the fan, in different ways--exposed how traditional systems of power and privilege clashed with norms of modernity and progress.Less
Louis A. Pérez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the sugar production boom and prior to independence. Contributing to the cultural history of capitalism in Latin America, Pérez argues that such creoles were cosmopolitans with powerful transnational affinities and an abiding identification with modernity. This period of Cuban history is usually viewed through a political lens, but Pérez shows how moral, social, and cultural changes that resulted from market forces also contributed to the collapse of the Spanish colonial administration. Pérez highlights women’s centrality in this process, showing how criollas adapted to new modes of self-representation as a means of self-fulfillment. Increasing opportunities for middle-class women’s public presence and social participation was both cause and consequence of expanding consumerism and of women’s challenges to prevailing gender hierarchies. Seemingly simple actions--riding a bicycle, for example, or deploying the abanico, the fan, in different ways--exposed how traditional systems of power and privilege clashed with norms of modernity and progress.
H. Douglas Robertson and Jeffrey C. Tsai
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179477
- eISBN:
- 9780199864638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179477.003.0021
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
The trip to school is very much a part of the school environment. Two aspects of this trip bear directly on children's health and safety: the risk of injuries during the journey and the opportunity ...
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The trip to school is very much a part of the school environment. Two aspects of this trip bear directly on children's health and safety: the risk of injuries during the journey and the opportunity for health promotion through physically active travel such as walking and bicycling. This chapter addresses the first set of concerns. It briefly describes the risks of school travel and offers suggestions for reducing or minimizing them. The emphasis is on “getting it right” by those who are involved. Several checklists are offered for consideration of the types of actions that might reduce the risks associated with the most common means of school travel. Much of the information in the chapter is drawn from a report published by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council, titled The Relative Risks of School Travel: A National Perspective and Guidance for Local Community Risk Assessment.Less
The trip to school is very much a part of the school environment. Two aspects of this trip bear directly on children's health and safety: the risk of injuries during the journey and the opportunity for health promotion through physically active travel such as walking and bicycling. This chapter addresses the first set of concerns. It briefly describes the risks of school travel and offers suggestions for reducing or minimizing them. The emphasis is on “getting it right” by those who are involved. Several checklists are offered for consideration of the types of actions that might reduce the risks associated with the most common means of school travel. Much of the information in the chapter is drawn from a report published by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council, titled The Relative Risks of School Travel: A National Perspective and Guidance for Local Community Risk Assessment.
Linda B. Crider and Amanda K. Hall
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179477
- eISBN:
- 9780199864638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179477.003.0022
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter addresses the physically active aspect of school travel, such as walking and bicycling. Walking and bicycling offer important health benefits to children, but the proportion of children ...
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This chapter addresses the physically active aspect of school travel, such as walking and bicycling. Walking and bicycling offer important health benefits to children, but the proportion of children who walk and bike to school has declined in recent years. Safe Routes to School is a set of strategies designed to promote walking and biking to class by providing safe, appealing pedestrian routes and encouraging their use. These strategies include engineering and environmental changes, enforcement of applicable laws, education of children, parents, and motorists, and encouragement (social marketing). Important elements of Safe Routes to Schools programs include team approach, surveys to assess needs before implementing the program, and program evaluation once the program is in place.Less
This chapter addresses the physically active aspect of school travel, such as walking and bicycling. Walking and bicycling offer important health benefits to children, but the proportion of children who walk and bike to school has declined in recent years. Safe Routes to School is a set of strategies designed to promote walking and biking to class by providing safe, appealing pedestrian routes and encouraging their use. These strategies include engineering and environmental changes, enforcement of applicable laws, education of children, parents, and motorists, and encouragement (social marketing). Important elements of Safe Routes to Schools programs include team approach, surveys to assess needs before implementing the program, and program evaluation once the program is in place.
D. J. N. Limebeer and Matteo Massaro
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- April 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198825715
- eISBN:
- 9780191864636
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198825715.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Condensed Matter Physics / Materials
The broad aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the modelling and optimal control of both two‐ and four‐wheeled road vehicles. The first focus of this book is a review of ...
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The broad aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the modelling and optimal control of both two‐ and four‐wheeled road vehicles. The first focus of this book is a review of classical mechanics and its use in building vehicle and tyre dynamic models. The second is nonlinear optimal control, which is used to solve a range of minimum‐time, minimum‐fuel, and track curvature reconstruction problems. As is known classically, all thismaterial is bound together by the calculus of variations and stationary principles. The treatment of this material is supplemented with a large number of examples that highlight obscurities and subtleties in the theory. A particular strength of the book is its unified treatment of tyre, car, and motorcycle dynamics and the application of nonlinear optimal control to vehicle‐related problems within a single text. These topics are usually treated independently, and can only be found in disparate texts and journal articles. It is our contention that presentday vehicle dynamicists should be familiar with all of these topic areas. The aim in writing this book is to provide a comprehensive and yet accessible text that emphasizes particularly the theoretical aspects of vehicular modelling and control.Less
The broad aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the modelling and optimal control of both two‐ and four‐wheeled road vehicles. The first focus of this book is a review of classical mechanics and its use in building vehicle and tyre dynamic models. The second is nonlinear optimal control, which is used to solve a range of minimum‐time, minimum‐fuel, and track curvature reconstruction problems. As is known classically, all thismaterial is bound together by the calculus of variations and stationary principles. The treatment of this material is supplemented with a large number of examples that highlight obscurities and subtleties in the theory. A particular strength of the book is its unified treatment of tyre, car, and motorcycle dynamics and the application of nonlinear optimal control to vehicle‐related problems within a single text. These topics are usually treated independently, and can only be found in disparate texts and journal articles. It is our contention that presentday vehicle dynamicists should be familiar with all of these topic areas. The aim in writing this book is to provide a comprehensive and yet accessible text that emphasizes particularly the theoretical aspects of vehicular modelling and control.
Evan Friss
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226210919
- eISBN:
- 9780226211077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226211077.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines some of the early history of the bicycle, focusing on the development of the safety bicycle and its rise in popularity. One of the key figures in that process, Colonel Albert ...
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This chapter examines some of the early history of the bicycle, focusing on the development of the safety bicycle and its rise in popularity. One of the key figures in that process, Colonel Albert Pope, is introduced as a pioneer in the American bicycle industry. The role of technology and the ways in which bicycles were advertised, marketed, sold, and distributed are also discussed.Less
This chapter examines some of the early history of the bicycle, focusing on the development of the safety bicycle and its rise in popularity. One of the key figures in that process, Colonel Albert Pope, is introduced as a pioneer in the American bicycle industry. The role of technology and the ways in which bicycles were advertised, marketed, sold, and distributed are also discussed.
Evan Friss
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226210919
- eISBN:
- 9780226211077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226211077.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter discusses cyclists' influence on road improvement—laying new roads and replacing subpar paving materials with asphalt. The politics of the era and the developing bicycle lobby help ...
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This chapter discusses cyclists' influence on road improvement—laying new roads and replacing subpar paving materials with asphalt. The politics of the era and the developing bicycle lobby help explain the unusually powerful role that cyclists had in shaping city streets. As just one example, Carter Harrison, the cycling mayor of Chicago, is profiled.Less
This chapter discusses cyclists' influence on road improvement—laying new roads and replacing subpar paving materials with asphalt. The politics of the era and the developing bicycle lobby help explain the unusually powerful role that cyclists had in shaping city streets. As just one example, Carter Harrison, the cycling mayor of Chicago, is profiled.
Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262035910
- eISBN:
- 9780262338868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035910.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter describes and analyzes how Los Angeles became an auto-dominant region, how Hong Kong built a much admired rail passenger system, and how China, in rapid fire succession, witnessed a ...
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This chapter describes and analyzes how Los Angeles became an auto-dominant region, how Hong Kong built a much admired rail passenger system, and how China, in rapid fire succession, witnessed a massive increase in car use and metro development. It identifies the air quality, land use, and mobility shifts associated with these changing transportation systems. It describes how Los Angeles seeks to lessen its car dependence with its new push for rail and increased bike use and walkability strategies; how Hong Kong struggles with congestion due to increased car ownership and car use while still relying on the link between its metro and rail system and concentrated real estate development near metro stops; and how China’s cities, such as Shenzhen, race ahead with new metro and high speed rail development while confronting the environmental problems and challenges related to its enormous growth in car use and the erosion of its Bicycle Kingdom reputation.Less
This chapter describes and analyzes how Los Angeles became an auto-dominant region, how Hong Kong built a much admired rail passenger system, and how China, in rapid fire succession, witnessed a massive increase in car use and metro development. It identifies the air quality, land use, and mobility shifts associated with these changing transportation systems. It describes how Los Angeles seeks to lessen its car dependence with its new push for rail and increased bike use and walkability strategies; how Hong Kong struggles with congestion due to increased car ownership and car use while still relying on the link between its metro and rail system and concentrated real estate development near metro stops; and how China’s cities, such as Shenzhen, race ahead with new metro and high speed rail development while confronting the environmental problems and challenges related to its enormous growth in car use and the erosion of its Bicycle Kingdom reputation.
Alphonso Lingis
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226556765
- eISBN:
- 9780226557090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226557090.003.0023
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
In the face of irrevocable loss, when work can have no effect, when performance has become absurd in the absence of lover or witness, we may find that our life continues in rituals. What do these ...
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In the face of irrevocable loss, when work can have no effect, when performance has become absurd in the absence of lover or witness, we may find that our life continues in rituals. What do these rituals do? Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude tells of how Colonel Aureliano Buendía lives after the defeat of the insurrection he had led, and of how his sister Amaranta prepared to die when her loveless life was coming to an end. A young man whose wife had been killed in an automobile accident sets out to cross the continent alone on a bicycle in the course of a year, 10.000 kilometers. An immigrant remembers someone on the ship who left alone to walk from Perth to Melbourne and perished. Fifty years later the immigrant resumes that walk.Less
In the face of irrevocable loss, when work can have no effect, when performance has become absurd in the absence of lover or witness, we may find that our life continues in rituals. What do these rituals do? Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude tells of how Colonel Aureliano Buendía lives after the defeat of the insurrection he had led, and of how his sister Amaranta prepared to die when her loveless life was coming to an end. A young man whose wife had been killed in an automobile accident sets out to cross the continent alone on a bicycle in the course of a year, 10.000 kilometers. An immigrant remembers someone on the ship who left alone to walk from Perth to Melbourne and perished. Fifty years later the immigrant resumes that walk.
Christopher S. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520256309
- eISBN:
- 9780520934863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520256309.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses the social, cultural, and political history of bicycling under the Third Republic, including aspects of the Tour de France. It explains that the French have found the Tour a ...
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This chapter discusses the social, cultural, and political history of bicycling under the Third Republic, including aspects of the Tour de France. It explains that the French have found the Tour a particularly productive site for competing narratives about France and Frenchness, and notes that the race quickly established itself as the nation's most popular sporting event, attracting ever-more-extensive media coverage. The chapter discusses that most of the Tour-inspired narratives reflect their often-conflicted relationship with modernity. It clarifies that the French have used the race to tell stories about what it means to be French and what it means to be modern.Less
This chapter discusses the social, cultural, and political history of bicycling under the Third Republic, including aspects of the Tour de France. It explains that the French have found the Tour a particularly productive site for competing narratives about France and Frenchness, and notes that the race quickly established itself as the nation's most popular sporting event, attracting ever-more-extensive media coverage. The chapter discusses that most of the Tour-inspired narratives reflect their often-conflicted relationship with modernity. It clarifies that the French have used the race to tell stories about what it means to be French and what it means to be modern.
Jing Nie
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622090866
- eISBN:
- 9789882206724
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622090866.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter relates Henri Lefebvre's space theory to contemporary Chinese economy and urban landscape, and then examines the manifestations of space as represented in four Chinese films: Shower ...
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This chapter relates Henri Lefebvre's space theory to contemporary Chinese economy and urban landscape, and then examines the manifestations of space as represented in four Chinese films: Shower (1999), Beijing Bicycle (2001), The World (2004), and Cell Phone (2004). These films represent the cityscape as fraught with trauma and displacement, and haunted by ghosts of both the past and the future.Less
This chapter relates Henri Lefebvre's space theory to contemporary Chinese economy and urban landscape, and then examines the manifestations of space as represented in four Chinese films: Shower (1999), Beijing Bicycle (2001), The World (2004), and Cell Phone (2004). These films represent the cityscape as fraught with trauma and displacement, and haunted by ghosts of both the past and the future.
Christopher S. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520256309
- eISBN:
- 9780520934863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520256309.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter demonstrates how the ever-changing itinerary of la grande boucle has been exploited to generate diverse and often opposing views of French society, history, and identity. It evaluates ...
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This chapter demonstrates how the ever-changing itinerary of la grande boucle has been exploited to generate diverse and often opposing views of French society, history, and identity. It evaluates past bicycle races conducted in France and how they affected France's view towards the Tour de France. The chapter shows how the psychological impact of including the lost provinces in the Tour itinerary, from 1906 through 1910 L'Auto persuaded the German authorities to allow the race to pass through Alsace-Lorraine. It explains that L'Auto's use of the Tour's itinerary to honor the sacrifices of so many French soldiers reflected a broader commemorative movement.Less
This chapter demonstrates how the ever-changing itinerary of la grande boucle has been exploited to generate diverse and often opposing views of French society, history, and identity. It evaluates past bicycle races conducted in France and how they affected France's view towards the Tour de France. The chapter shows how the psychological impact of including the lost provinces in the Tour itinerary, from 1906 through 1910 L'Auto persuaded the German authorities to allow the race to pass through Alsace-Lorraine. It explains that L'Auto's use of the Tour's itinerary to honor the sacrifices of so many French soldiers reflected a broader commemorative movement.
