TY - GEN AU - Gopakumar,Govind TI - Installing Automobility : Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities SN - mitpress/12399.001.0001 PY - 2020/// CY - Cambridge PB - The MIT Press KW - Urban & municipal planning KW - bicssc KW - Motor cars: general interest KW - Transportation KW - Bengaluru KW - Bangalore KW - India KW - streets KW - mobility KW - justice KW - urban KW - congestion KW - politics KW - technopolitical KW - constellation KW - regime KW - infrastructurescape KW - citizenship KW - shabby automobility KW - performativity KW - affordance KW - Global South KW - case study KW - twenty-first century KW - history KW - longue durée KW - motorization KW - cars KW - transport KW - roads KW - cities KW - environment KW - infrastructure KW - traffic KW - cityscape KW - landscape KW - Karnataka KW - Mysore kingdom KW - South Asia KW - Asia KW - vehicles KW - scapes KW - messy KW - dystopia KW - instrumentality KW - discourse KW - privilege KW - power KW - disenfranchising KW - unlocking KW - reclaiming KW - colonialism KW - post-colonial KW - affordability N1 - Open Access N2 - An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru's burgeoning automobility to the city's history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the “regimes of congestion” that emerge to address the issue; an “infrastructurescape” that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an “automotive citizenship” (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses UR - http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262538916 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77974 ER -