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Understanding how transport defines us by shaping our behaviour, beliefs and perceptions
Transport infuses our culture in a myriad ways: our interaction
with transport influences our behaviour (think of how we act on the
Underground), our beliefs, our expectations and desires ("Oh Lord, won't you
buy me a Mercedes Benz?"). It has been
absorbed into our language: people run on
empty and burn rubber.
Transport also helps to define our world: in obvious ways, such as through the presence of infrastructure, and in subtler ways - it is often possible to identify a place through the typography of its street signs.
And transport is everywhere in the arts - from the train as
agent of death in Anna Karenina to the extensive representation of the car in
film as a source of freedom, means of escape, symbol of power…
Looking for an expert on transport and culture? Try Iain Borden or Richard Dennis
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Case study: cars and driving as seen through film
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