{"title":"Book Review: Cycling and the British: A Modern History by Neil Carter","authors":"P. Cox","doi":"10.1177/00225266211068993","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"more comparative perspective is needed here since not only London but Paris were cities with large and iconic metro systems which modified daily urban experience and built new subjects. In fact, this book offers a well and solid theoretical frame to do this comparison in the future. To compare different cities and experiences would help to see how mechanization, through this transport machine, was globalized. By the 1910s not only Europe and the USA had implemented metros, also South America: what kind of modern passengers these different cultures built up? While we might agree that modernity is uneven – or, there are modernities – and that it needs to be scrutinised in local and historical contexts, to what extent the infrastructural subjectivity of the New York Subway is similar to the passenger built by other underground railways. Is it possible to identify certain aspects which are common to this particular infrastructure beyond the singularities of the city and its history?","PeriodicalId":336494,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Transport History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of Transport History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00225266211068993","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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more comparative perspective is needed here since not only London but Paris were cities with large and iconic metro systems which modified daily urban experience and built new subjects. In fact, this book offers a well and solid theoretical frame to do this comparison in the future. To compare different cities and experiences would help to see how mechanization, through this transport machine, was globalized. By the 1910s not only Europe and the USA had implemented metros, also South America: what kind of modern passengers these different cultures built up? While we might agree that modernity is uneven – or, there are modernities – and that it needs to be scrutinised in local and historical contexts, to what extent the infrastructural subjectivity of the New York Subway is similar to the passenger built by other underground railways. Is it possible to identify certain aspects which are common to this particular infrastructure beyond the singularities of the city and its history?
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