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|Abstract=If you drive a car, it’s a classic problem on the busy city streets, the search for a
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|Abstract=Studies of car driving have tended to be based in cognitive psychology of a mentalistic streak where navigational and search activities are assumed to be based on internal and individual mental choices and decisions based on the perception of an external environment. This article remains concerned with navigational and search procedures though by contrast it treats these as publicly available courses of action intelligible in the details of driving, traffic, mundane street architectures, the sequential logic of searching for a parking space and more. Driving is taken to be a collective achievement of those particular members of traffic cohorts wherever we find them. Ethnographic video materials are drawn upon to provide a rich source of the real-worldly work of a singular instance of finding a place to park in a busy city centre.
parking space. Merely driving in the inner city is a challenging and frustrating affair
 
because it is full of one way streets, dead ends, the visibility of surrounding streets is
 
impeded by buildings and as we drive we are pushed ceaselessly forward from
 
behind by other vehicles. If we pause for thought for more than a second we will be
 
reprimanded by one or more car horns. How it is that masses of us move, as
 
pedestrian or vehicular traffic, in an orderly way through space is also a classic
 
problem for research in psychology, geography and other social sciences. From a
 
distance it seems that the large movements of thousands of vehicles on the road
 
must require explanations arising from another level, a macro-level. From close-by,
 
observing the driver we wonder how she could possibly deal with such a fast
 
complicated environment in their head. How many decisions would they have to
 
make every second? For decision-making models of driving and transportation the
 
point that getting a hold of a space to park our cars is, unavoidably, a search during
 
which decisions are made, is all too often forgotten. As Thompson and Richardson
 
(1998: 129) note dryly, ‘previous models of parking choice have not considered it as
 
a search’(p159)
 
 
 
 
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Laurier2005
BibType ARTICLE
Key Laurier2005
Author(s) Eric Laurier
Title Searching for a parking space
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Driving, Parking
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Year 2005
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Journal Intellectica
Volume
Number 41-42
Pages 101–115
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Abstract

Studies of car driving have tended to be based in cognitive psychology of a mentalistic streak where navigational and search activities are assumed to be based on internal and individual mental choices and decisions based on the perception of an external environment. This article remains concerned with navigational and search procedures though by contrast it treats these as publicly available courses of action intelligible in the details of driving, traffic, mundane street architectures, the sequential logic of searching for a parking space and more. Driving is taken to be a collective achievement of those particular members of traffic cohorts wherever we find them. Ethnographic video materials are drawn upon to provide a rich source of the real-worldly work of a singular instance of finding a place to park in a busy city centre.

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