Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space [Hardcover]

The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. Reimagining the city prompts an important question: How best to rethink urban geographies of transport and mobility? This original book explores connections  in theory and practice  between transport geographies and new mobilities in the production of urban space. It provides a broad introduction to intersecting perspectives of urban geography, transport geography, and mobilities studies on urban places of flows. Diverse, international, and leading-edge contributions reinterpret everyday intersections as nodes, urban corridors as links, cities and regions as networks, and the discourses and imaginaries that frame the politics and experiences of mobility. The chapters illuminate nearly all aspects of urban transport, from street regulation and roadway planning, intended and subversive practices of car and truck drivers, planning and promotion of mass transit investments, and the restructuring of freight and logistics networks. Together these offer a unique and important contribution for social scientists, planners, and others interested in the politics of the city on the move.

Approaching the City as Place of Flows.  Foreword 1: Transportation Geographies and Mobilities Studies: Toward Collaboration  Susan Hanson  Foreword 2: Mobilizing Transportation, Transporting Mobilities  Mimi Sheller  1. Introduction: Transportation, Mobilities, and Rethinking Urban Geographies of Flow  David Prytherch and Julie Cidell  Part I: Intersections: Everyday Places as Nodes  2. Rules of the Road: Choreographingl(