Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities [Hardcover]

This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences and in urban studies. Leading sociologists, economists, urban planners and architects address the ways in which spatial mobilities contribute to producing diversified uses of the city and describe forms and rhythms of different life practices, including unexpected uses and conflicts. The individual sections of the book focus on the role of mobility in transforming contemporary cities; the consequences of interpreting mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon for urban projects and policies; the conflicts and inequalities generated by the co-presence of different populations due to mobility and by the interests gathered around major mobility projects; and the use of new data and mapping of mobilities to enhance comprehension of cities. The theoretical discussion is complemented by references to practical experiences, helping readers gain a broader understanding of mobilities inrelation to the capacity to analyze, plan and design contemporary cities.Introduction.- Mobility Practices as a Knowledge and Design Tool for Urban Policy.- A Social Science Approach to the Study of Mobility. An Introduction.- Putting Territory to the Test of Reversibility.- Populations and Rhythms in Contemporary Cities.- Planning in Motion. The new Politics of Mobility in Munich.- In Search of an Integrated Mobility Project.- Plug&Play Places: Subjective Standardization of Places in Multilocal Lifeworlds.- Inhabiting Simultaneous Lives: Analysing Process of Reversibilization of Mobility Practices in Italy.- Temporal Efficiency, Temporal Justice and Urban Mobility.- Transport Disadvantage, Car Dependence and Urban Form.- Resident and Non-resident Urban Population: Types of Conflicts.- Metropolitan Dl$