The 'system' of automobility
The 'system' of automobility
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DOI：
10.1177/0263276404046059
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发表时间：
2004-08-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Urry, J
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作者：
Urry, J
这篇文章关注的是如何概念化和理论化的性质的“汽车系统”，这是一个特别关键的，如果令人惊讶地被忽视，元素在“全球化”。这篇文章将系统的概念部署为自我复制或自创生。这个概念被用来理解20世纪汽车系统的起源，尤其是它令人敬畏的路径依赖模式是如何建立起来的，并在地球仪上发挥着特别强大和自我扩张的统治模式。文章进一步探讨了20世纪的汽车系统是否以及如何被超越。它阐述了目前在各个试验场、工厂、ITC场地、城市和社会中正在发生的一些小变化。文章简要地考虑了这些小的变化是否可能在他们的应急订购结束目前的汽车系统。本文评估了这样一个新系统是否会在本世纪结束之前出现，换句话说，现在的一些小变化是否会产生新的后汽车系统的巨大影响，对城市生活，流动性和限制预计的气候变化产生重大影响。
This article is concerned with how to conceptualize and theorize the nature of the 'car system' that is a particularly key, if surprisingly neglected, element in 'globalization'. The article deploys the notion of systems as self-reproducing or autopoietic. This notion is used to understand the origins of the 20th-century car system and especially how its awesome pattern of path dependency was established and exerted a particularly powerful and self-expanding pattern of domination across the globe. The article further considers whether and how the 20th-century car system may be transcended. It elaborates a number of small changes that are now occurring in various test sites, factories, ITC sites, cities and societies. The article briefly considers whether these small changes may in their contingent ordering end this current car system. The article assesses whether such a new system could emerge well before the end of this century, whether in other words some small changes now may produce the very large effect of a new post-car system that would have great implications for urban life, for mobility and for limiting projected climate change.