TY - JOUR

T1 - Mobilities at a standstill

T2 - regulating circulation in London c.1863-1870

AU - Lopez-Galviz, Carlos Andres

PY - 2013/10

Y1 - 2013/10

N2 - The article explores the relationship between regulating traffic and structuring congestion in mid-nineteenth-century London. It examines plans for the opening of new streets and for the erection of dedicated structures such as subways and pedestrian bridges, as well as the debates around legislation regulating everyday practices, which included the introduction of time intervals and designating pedestrian street crossings. The need for people and vehicles to circulate was central to all of these as were the reactions against congestion. The article interrogates the extent to which the study of what might be termed circulation’s inextricable other, namely congestion, sheds a new light on our understanding of the experience of modernity at a particular time in London’s history.

AB - The article explores the relationship between regulating traffic and structuring congestion in mid-nineteenth-century London. It examines plans for the opening of new streets and for the erection of dedicated structures such as subways and pedestrian bridges, as well as the debates around legislation regulating everyday practices, which included the introduction of time intervals and designating pedestrian street crossings. The need for people and vehicles to circulate was central to all of these as were the reactions against congestion. The article interrogates the extent to which the study of what might be termed circulation’s inextricable other, namely congestion, sheds a new light on our understanding of the experience of modernity at a particular time in London’s history.

U2 - 10.1016/j.jhg.2013.04.019

DO - 10.1016/j.jhg.2013.04.019

M3 - Journal article

VL - 42

SP - 62

EP - 76

JO - Journal of Historical Geography

JF - Journal of Historical Geography

SN - 0305-7488

ER -