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The Future of Transportation
How will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trains With the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation times. Most city commuters would be quick to tell you otherwise.
Of all the technological interventions continuously inserted into our daily travels, which ones will last? Is ride-sharing here to stay? In ten years will we all be taking autonomous vehicles to work? Will traffic as we know it cease to exist? While this volume makes no promises or predictions, it does take a step back from the hype of the new to explore what might seem like yesterday's buses, bikes and even trains. Perhaps remedies to our transportation woes are not all in the future but are hiding in plain and present sight.
The Future of Transportation is the third volume in the SOM Thinkers series, conceived by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. SOM Thinkers originated from a desire to start a public conversation about the built environment. Rather than frame the subject in the expected "professional" language, the series poses today's most pressing questions about design and architecture in a bold and accessible way.
This volume features work by Henry Grabar, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Laura Bliss, Darran Anderson, Nick Van Mead, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Alison Griswold and Christopher Schaberg, with artwork by Olalekan Jeyifous.
Of all the technological interventions continuously inserted into our daily travels, which ones will last? Is ride-sharing here to stay? In ten years will we all be taking autonomous vehicles to work? Will traffic as we know it cease to exist? While this volume makes no promises or predictions, it does take a step back from the hype of the new to explore what might seem like yesterday's buses, bikes and even trains. Perhaps remedies to our transportation woes are not all in the future but are hiding in plain and present sight.
The Future of Transportation is the third volume in the SOM Thinkers series, conceived by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. SOM Thinkers originated from a desire to start a public conversation about the built environment. Rather than frame the subject in the expected "professional" language, the series poses today's most pressing questions about design and architecture in a bold and accessible way.
This volume features work by Henry Grabar, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Laura Bliss, Darran Anderson, Nick Van Mead, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Alison Griswold and Christopher Schaberg, with artwork by Olalekan Jeyifous.
124 pages, Paperback
First published November 19, 2019
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February 18, 2020
This is a lovely collection of essays that focuses on mobility and how me move from place to place: from small commutes to international travel.
Derek Moore says in the foreword, “The importance of transportation to our lives-and to the planet-is so great that we must treat it as a public benefit, a common space, and essential part of the solution to the challenges we face in the 21st Century.” Think poverty, climate change, etc....
Henry Grabar says in the introduction, “ The transportation technologies that have changed the world, annihilating time and space, have only been as good as the developments they enable outside themselves.”
The book encompass a wide variety of subjects including how we travel, mobile borders, cruise ship experiences, and bus rapid transit vs. metros. All in all, each essay was a lovely thought provoking read.
Derek Moore says in the foreword, “The importance of transportation to our lives-and to the planet-is so great that we must treat it as a public benefit, a common space, and essential part of the solution to the challenges we face in the 21st Century.” Think poverty, climate change, etc....
Henry Grabar says in the introduction, “ The transportation technologies that have changed the world, annihilating time and space, have only been as good as the developments they enable outside themselves.”
The book encompass a wide variety of subjects including how we travel, mobile borders, cruise ship experiences, and bus rapid transit vs. metros. All in all, each essay was a lovely thought provoking read.
August 29, 2023
while it explores some interesting aspects of contemporary mass transportation and it’s shortcomings, this book rarely ever actually posits detailed solutions for what “the future of transportation” should look like - the discussion of buses in Dar-es-Salaam is the only well rounded chapter that does just that
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