Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

Book Overview

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 Dynamics and Mobility Flows. A National Comparative Study (1991-2011).- Mobility Practices in Peri-urban Areas: Understanding Processes of Urban Regionalization in Milan Urban Region.- Mobile Phone Data in Reading Mobility Practices.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319794124
• ISBN13: 9783319794129
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"