Driving Spaces A Cultural Historical Geography Of Englands M1 Motorway

Download or read book Driving Spaces written by Peter Merriman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England’s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography Contains 38 high quality illustrations Based on extensive, original archive work