Hot Rods and Customs: The Men and Machines of California's Car Culture, at the Oakland Museum of California

1998 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Robert C. Post
Keyword(s):  
Car Culture ◽  
Oakland Museum Of California

Car Culture

2005 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
Christopher Innes
Keyword(s):  
Car Culture

On the Side: Car Culture in the USSR, 1960s–1980s

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Car Culture

scholarly journals Islamic mobility: Car culture in modern Malaysia

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 572-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Car Culture

European Models, Domestic Hesitance

Transfers ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Massimo Moraglio
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
Surface Transport ◽  
Italian Experience ◽  
Car Culture ◽  
Renewal Program ◽  
Provincial Councils

Looking beyond motorways plans, this essay focuses on the role of the Italian "road" lobby in the 1920s in shaping the national transport policy. Contractors like Puricelli were the driving forces of surface transport modernization, with visionary plans but also facing a lack of sympathy by the automobile industry. Those programs were nevertheless carried out with the strong support of the Touring Club and provincial councils. In this context, it seems that the fascist dictatorship, with its hesitance, slowed—rather than hastened—road modernization. Only in 1928, feeding off the ideas of Puricelli and others, did the Mussolini government develop a proper road renewal program. Finally, framing the Italian experience in the European contexts, it emerges that despite the extreme success of American car culture, England is depicted as a more suitable model.

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