Commuting, transport and urban form: Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century

Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull
2000 Urban History  
The paper explores the links between changing transport technology, individual mobility and urban form in the British cities of Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century. The variability of individual commuting preferences is stressed, and it is argued that decisions about the provision of public transport rarely took into account the views of individual commuters. It is also suggested that factors governing modal choice have remained quite stable from the 1930s to the 1960s. The
more » ... between transport technology, individual mobility and urban form are an important but elusive aspect of urban history. Studies of nineteenth-century cities have mainly focused on the impact of railways on urban growth, 1 or on the role of omnibuses and trams in the process of suburbanization. 2 Because of its size, and more fully developed public transport networks, more attention has been focused on London than on
doi:10.1017/s096392680000033x fatcat:hom3ct46a5gxzmwuebkjqw27qi