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

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

Author(s): Peter Merriman

Published Online: 27 MAY 2008

Print ISBN: 9781405130738

Online ISBN: 9780470762448

DOI: 10.1002/9780470762448

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Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England's M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s.


  • A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway
  • An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography
  • Contains 38 high quality illustrations
  • Based on extensive, original archive work

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