Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities

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Govind Gopakumar (Chair and Associate Professor, Concordia University)

Installing Automobility

Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities

Govind Gopakumar (Chair and Associate Professor, Concordia University)

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MIT Press
07 April 2020

Urban & municipal planning; Transport planning & policy

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

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.

By: Govind Gopakumar (Chair and Associate Professor Concordia University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
ISBN: 9780262538916
ISBN 10: 0262538911
Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 07 April 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Govind Gopakumar is Chair and Associate Professor at the Centre for Engineering in Society at Concordia University, Montreal.

Reviews for Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities

“Installing Automobility is a welcome addition to mobility studies, both in the context of India and beyond.” —Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Technology and Culture, July 2022