List of Figures. 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.
