Architectures of hurry : mobilities cities and modernity Architectures of hurry: an introductory essay Richard Dennis Phillip Gordon Mackintosh and Deryck W. Holdsworth She scorches now and then : American women and the construction of 1890s cycling Christina E. Dando The London bus : an unlikely architecture of hurry Richard Dennis The tales of two mobility infrastructures : the street and the underground railway of Buenos Aires 1880s 1940s Dhan Zunino Singh Hurry slow : automobility in Beijing or a resurrection of the kingdom of bicycles Glen Norcliffe and Boyang Gao An architecture of sluggishness : organic infrastructure and anti mobility in Toronto 1870 1910 Phillip Gordon Mackintosh Keeping pedestrians in their place : technologies of segregation on the streets of East London David Rooney Hurried exchanges : hybrid office buildings and their uses in the late nineteenth century Deryck W. Holdsworth Shelter from the hurry : hospitality in Montreal 1836 1913 Sherry Olson and Mary Anne Poutanen Pedestrianism money and time : mobilities of hurry in George Gissings the private papers of Henry Ryecroft Jason Finch Were going to move. I cant rush backwards and forwards Ill go mad. I am sure of it. Representations of speed and haste in English life writing 1846 1958 Colin G. Pooley and Marilyn E. Pooley Epilogue : mobilizing hurrysome historical geographies Phillip Gordon Mackintosh Deryck W. Holdsworth and Richard Dennis Hurry is an intrinsic component of modernity. It exists not only in tandem with modern constructions of mobility speed rhythm and time space compression but also with infrastructures technologies practices and emotions associated with the experience of the mobilizing modern. Hurry is not simply speed. It may result in congestion slowing down or inaction in the face of over stimulus. Speeding up is often competitive: faster traffic on better roads made it harder for pedestrians to cross or for horse drawn vehicles and cyclists to share the carriageway with motorised vehicles. Focussing on the cultural and material manifestations of hurry the books contributors analyse the complexities tensions and contradictions inherent in the impulse to higher rates of circulation in modernizing cities. The collection includes but also goes beyond accounts of new forms of mobility (bicycles buses underground trains) and infrastructure (street layouts and surfaces business exchanges and hotels) to show how modernitys architectures of hurry have been experienced represented and practised since the mid nineteenth century. Ten case studies explore different expressions of hurry across cities and urban regions in Asia Europe and North and South America while substantial introductory and concluding chapters situate hurry in the wider context of modernity and mobility studies and reflect on the future of hurry in an ever accelerating world. This diverse collection will be relevant to researchers scholars and practitioners in the fields of planning cultural and historical geography urban history and urban sociology