On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan–Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to Italian Fascism. This book recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which—alongside railways, aviation, and other forms of mobility—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible

    Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Roads before the Motorways -- Chapter 2. 1922: The Motorway from Milan to the Prealpine Lakes -- Chapter 3. Motorway Mania in Italy in the Twenties -- Chapter 4. The Ordinary Roads Problem -- Chapter 5. From the Pedemontana Project to the Construction Suspension -- Chapter 6. A Case Study: The Turin-Milan Motorway -- Chapter 7. The Thirties: The European Utopia and the Nationalist Fulfillment -- Chapter 8. The Bankruptcy and Legacy of the Motorways -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index


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    Driving modernity : technology, experts, politics, and fascist motorways, 1922-1943


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    2017


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    1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 210 Seiten)


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    illustrations, figures, tables



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    Electronic Resource


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    English



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    Driving modernity : technology, experts, politics, and fascist motorways 1922-1943

    Moraglio, Massimo | GWLB - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek | 2017

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