Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

by William J. Mitchell, Chris E. Borroni-Bird, Lawrence D. Burns

Book Overview

This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities -- where most of the world's people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262013827
• ISBN13: 9780262013826
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher