Making Mobilities Matter

Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities, developing a theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and its mobilities in a mobile risk society. It recognizes the importance of culture and everyday life in shaping urban mobilities, examining how contemporary communities exist, expand, and are sustained through localized and virtual forms of sharing responsibility, exchanging life experiences, creating meaning, and giving ontological security.

Format: Hardback
Length: 140 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Making Mobilities Matter delves into the intricate interplay between everyday practices, policy, and planning in urban mobility. It establishes a theoretical framework to comprehend the complexities of everyday life within a mobile risk society, challenging the prevailing technocratic perspectives that dominate transport politics and research. Recognizing the profound influence of culture and everyday life on shaping urban mobilities, the book explores how contemporary communities are formed, expanded, and sustained through localized and virtual forms of sharing responsibility, exchanging life experiences, creating meaning, and providing ontological security to individuals' lives. It also offers insightful perspectives on the emotional dimension of mobilities in everyday life and how utopias can address these emotions.

Concluding the book, Making Mobilities Matter engages in a discussion of the future prospects for urban mobility, emphasizing its crucial role in combating climate change. It serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in understanding the significance of mobilities in sustainable urban development and addressing the pressing challenges of our time.

Weight: 306g
Dimension: 142 x 222 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367607883