Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities today.

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Historicizing Sustainable Urban Mobility Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, and Ruth Oldenziel SECTION I: SELLING UNSUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY Chapter 1. Designing (Un)Sustainable Urban Mobility from Transnational Settings, 1850–Present Ruth Oldenziel, M. Luísa Sousa, and Pieter van Wesemael Chapter 2. History as Motordom’s Tool of Agenda Legitimation: Twentieth-Century U.S. Urban Mobility Trajectories Peter Norton Chapter 3. Railway Modernism Losing Out: Lessons from an English Conurbation, 1955–1975 Colin Divall SECTION II: RECOVERING SUSTAINABLE MOBILITIES OF THE PAST Chapter 4. Pedestrian Stories: Recovering Sustainable Urban Mobility Colin Pooley Chapter 5. Load Story: A Century of Pedestrian Logistics in Toulouse Franck Cochoy, Roland Canu, and Cédric Calvignac Chapter 6. Recovering Sustainable Mobility Practices: A Visual History of Turku’s Streetscape 1950–1980 Tiina Männistö-Funk SECTION III: PERSISTENCE AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITIES Chapter 7. State Socialism and Sustainable Urban Mobility: Alternative Paths in St Petersburg since the 1880s Alexandra Bekasova, Julia Kulikova, and Martin Emanuel Chapter 8. Liveable Streets and Hidden Unsustainability: The Biography of a Street in Stockholm Martin Emanuel Chapter 9. Green Urban Spaces and Sustainable Mobility: Parks as Pockets of Persistence since the 1830s Frank Schipper SECTION IV: RESEARCH AGENDAS FOR THE FUTURE Chapter 10. Mobility Justice and the Velomobile Commons in Urban America Mimi Sheller Chapter 11. Toward a Long-Term Measurement System of Sustainable Urban Mobility      Appendix: Sources for Measuring Historical Sustainable Mobility      Jan-Pieter Smits and Frank Veraart Epilogue: Reflections from a Policy Perspective Hans Jeekel and Bert Toussaint Index

“This is the book I’ve been waiting to read: an investigation into how our cities came to be as unsustainable as they apparently were in the recent past. It uncovers hidden histories containing important clues for how to make cities more sustainable in the future.” • Daniel Gordon, Edge Hill University “The entire book is innovative, accessible, and well-written, with an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, economics, geography, and a number of other fields.” • Keith Laybourn, University of Huddersfield