All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Everyday mobility in the twentieth century: a global perspective
| Daily mobility – for instance travel to school, to work, to shop, to visit friends, for leisure and pleasure – is a relatively neglected aspect of population movement. However, it is fundamental to both the lives of individuals and the operation of society and economy. It can also be argued that during the twentieth century residential migration and daily mobility have become increasingly interlinked: for instance people have been able to opt for a longer journey to work in order to live in a more desirable neighbourhood. There is a substantial theoretical literature on ‘mobilities’ and much of this assumes that all forms of mobility have increased dramatically over the past century, with all parts of the world experiencing the same trends, but with the poorer nations lagging behind richer countries. This paper uses a wide range of evidence to review mobility change during the past century across a number of different countries. It is argued that an excessive focus on so-called ‘hypermobility’ by a few has masked much greater stability in mobility for many individuals across most countries. In particular, attention is focused on the continued importance of walking for much everyday mobility not only in poorer countries of the world, where this remains the principal means of transport for many, but also in richer countries where despite a strong automobile culture many journeys, or parts of journeys, continue to be undertaken on foot. The changing role of public transport is also assessed, with emphasis placed on the extent to which many people continue to depend heavily on buses, trams or trains for their everyday travel. Whilst none of this evidence diminishes the undoubted environmental impacts of increased car use throughout the world, it is argued that by focusing almost exclusively on the rise of the motorcar in studies of mobility change, the continued significance of other forms of transport has been neglected. This has implications both for empirical evidence that feeds into transport planning policies and for theoretical formulations about mobility change.
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