Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780745644219
Year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 180


Description:
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.