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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of long-term changes in the car market of an emerging economy, with a focus on its spatial and temporal dimensions. Poland, the case study in question, represents a unique "laboratory of automobile revolution" during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Why is Poland such an intriguing case study of the automobile revolution in an emerging economy? 3. Driving gears of car ownership transformation 4. The market for new cars: Another dimension of the core-periphery pattern 5. The import of second-hand cars: evidence of individual entrepreneurship and social networks 6. Car use and alternative mobility solutions as a reflection of urban sprawl and marginalization of rural areas 7. Hybrid and electric cars: A novelty for the elites or a future ubiquitous good? 8. How the automobile revolution affects the natural environment 9. Conclusions, policy recommendations and future challenges in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
About the author
Bart¿omiej Ko¿sut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Geography, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland).
Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz is Professor of Geography and former head of the Department of Economic Geography, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland).
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of long-term changes in the car market of an emerging economy, with a focus on its spatial and temporal dimensions. Poland, the case study in question, represents a unique "laboratory of automobile revolution" during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
