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2024 T2M Annual Conference | Mobilities and Infrastructures: Transitions and Transformations

23–26 Sept 2024
Leipzig, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone
Welcome to the 2024 T2M Conference – we hope you find the sessions inspiring and the connections invaluable.

Local Organizing Team

Session

Obstinate Automobility: Promise and Path-Dependency

PS 14
24 Sept 2024, 11:30
Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig, Germany

Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 10 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Conveners

Obstinate Automobility: Promise and Path-Dependency

  • Yegor Muleev

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  1. 22. The post-soviet car-boom in Estonia
    Tambet Muide (Tartu University)
    24/09/2024, 11:30
    Paper

    The 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a swift rise in automobile ownership across Eastern Europe. The inhabitants of former Soviet states were keen to obtain passenger cars that were now freely available. In Estonia, the number of passenger cars skyrocketed during the early 1990s, doubling from 154 per 1000 inhabitants in 1990 to 307 in 1997. The number of cars continued to rise in the following...

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  2. 51. What’s gone wrong with my road novel? A practice-based road trip through mobility, class and social trauma in contemporary England
    Christopher Bogle (Northumbria University)
    24/09/2024, 11:45
    Paper

    This paper provides a snapshot of my practice-based PhD, in which I am using the road as a leitmotif in a collection of texts about cultural identity, class, and social trauma in post 1980's England.
    Since the development of the 18th century British turnpike network, road narratives have provided a means for cultural interrogation, utilising the radically shrunken space-time of speedy travel...

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  3. 87. Parking Planning and Management History and Prospect on the Development Trend of China's Parking Industry
    Chao Zeng
    24/09/2024, 12:00
    Paper

    This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the key position of parking planning and management in current cities by systematically combing the evolution and development of parking lots in different historical periods and national contexts. On this basis, it further discusses its development trend and puts forward corresponding suggestions, aiming at promoting the healthy development of the...

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  4. 94. Standardisation during the Great Acceleration: A case study on road standards in Denmark
    Jørgen Burchardt (Middelfart Museum)
    24/09/2024, 12:15
    Paper

    In 2000, in response to the expanding discourse on climate change, Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer developed the concept of the Anthropocene as signifying a shift from the geographical epoch of the Holocene. Their conceptualisation places the beginning of the new epoch in the late 18th century, when human actions began fundamentally reshaping Earth’s systems. Steffen, Crutzen and...

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