The Shrinking Continent: Accessibility, Competitiveness, and Cohesion
The Shrinking Continent: Accessibility, Competitiveness, and Cohesion
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K. Spiekermann
At the beginning of the era of the railways, Heinrich Heine wrote in Paris, “The railway kills space, so we are left with time. If we only had enough money to kill time, too! It is now possible to go to Orléans in four and a half hours or in as many hours to Rouen. Wait until the lines to Belgium and Germany are built and connected with the railways there! It is as if the mountains and forests of all countries moved towards Paris. I can smell the scent of German linden trees, and the North Sea is roaring in front of my door” (Heine 1854/1964, 65). The quote circumscribes the topic of this paper, the relationship between speed and space or, in other words, the relationship between space and time.
