From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there remain critical insights to be gleaned from the history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our everyday lives. United by their pursuit of a usable past, the studies in this interdisciplinary collection consider the ecological, social, and economic aspects of urban mobility, showing how historical inquiry can make both conceptual and practical contributions to the projects of sustainability and urban renewal.

Martin Emanuel is a historian of technology affiliated with the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University with a profile on mobility, urban, and tourism history. He is the author ofTrafikslag på undantag: Cykeltrafiken i Stockholm 19301980 [Excluded through Planning: Bicycle Traffic in Stockholm 19301980] (2012) and co-author ofCycling Cities: The European Experience (2016).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Historicizing Sustainable Urban Mobility
Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, andRuth Oldenziel

SECTION I: SELLING UNSUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY

Chapter 1. Designing (Un)Sustainable Urban Mobility from Transnational Settings, 1850Present
Ruth Oldenziel, M. Luísa Sousa, and Pieter van Wesemael

Chapter 2. History as Motordoms Tool of Agenda Legitimation: Twentieth-Century U.S. Urban Mobility Trajectories
Peter Norton

Chapter 3. Railway Modernism Losing Out: Lessons from an English Conurbation, 19551975
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 Turkus Streetscape 19501980
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