Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Introduction: Driving Spaces.

Mobilities.

Driving, Space, Social Relations.

Driving, Landscape, Visuality.

Geographies of the Modern Road.

Contents of the Book.

2 Envisioning British Motorways.

Motoring and the Motor-Car Way, 1896-1930.

The German Autobahnen: The Politics and Aesthetics of a Nation's Roads.

Motorways for Britain? National Plans, National Defence.

Motorways, War and Reconstruction.

Motorways and the British Landscape.

3 Designing and Landscaping the M1.

Legislating and Campaigning: Towards a National Motorway Network.

Locating the M1: Regional Planning, Local Protests and the Authority of the Engineer.

Landscape Architecture and the Post-war, Modern Road.

'A New Look at the English Landscape': Landscape Architecture, Movement and the Aesthetics of a Modern Motorway.

Towards a Road Style: Service Areas in the Landscape.

'Cutting Holes in the Landscape': Britain's Motorway Signs.

4 Constructing the M1.

'Operation Motorway': Constructing the M1 Motorway.

Song of a Road: Folk Song, Working-Class Culture and the Labour of a Motorway.

5 Driving, Consuming and Governing the M1.

Motorway Driving, Embodiment, Competence.

'Motorway Madness': Driving, Governing, Expertise.

Motorway Modern: Consuming the M1.

Motorway Service Areas and the Motorist-Consumer.

Assessing the M1’s Performance: Cost-Benefi t Analysis, Scientifi c Experiments, Accidents.

6 Motorways and Driving since the 1960s.

The 'M1 Corridor'.

Motorways and 'the Environment'.

Dystopian and Marginal Landscapes?

Placeless Environments?

Placing the M1 in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

Appendix: Archival Sources.

Notes.

References.

Index.