Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

Julie Cidell (Editor), David Prytherch (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1138546429 / ISBN 13: 9781138546424

Published by Routledge, 2018

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Contents: pt. I. Intersections : everyday places as nodes pt. II. Corridors : links in the network pt. III. Networks : cities and regions in wider context pt. IV. Circulation : assemblages and experiences of mobility.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138546429
• ISBN 13: 9781138546424
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Julie Cidell is Associate Professor of Geography and GIS at the University of Illinois.

David Prytherch is Associate Professor of Geography at Miami University.