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Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

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Editors:
  1. Paola Pucci

    1. DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  2. Matteo Colleoni

    1. Department of Sociology and Social Research, The University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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  • Highlights the role of mobility in transforming today’s cities
  • Investigates the consequences of interpreting mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon for urban projects and policies
  • Examines the use of new data and mapping of mobilities to enhance understanding of cities
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Research for Development (REDE)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Mobilities and the Transformations of Contemporary Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Mobility Practices as a Knowledge and Design Tool for Urban Policy

      • Paola Pucci
      Pages 3-21

    3. A Social Science Approach to the Study of Mobility: An Introduction

      • Matteo Colleoni
      Pages 23-33

    4. Putting Territory to the Test of Reversibility

      • Vincent Kaufmann
      Pages 35-48

    5. Populations and Rhythms in Contemporary Cities

      • Gabriele Pasqui
      Pages 49-63

  4. Mobilities, Inequalities and Conflicts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Temporal Efficiency, Temporal Justice and Urban Mobility

      • Dietrich Henckel, Susanne Thomaier
      Pages 151-170

    3. Transport Disadvantage, Car Dependence and Urban Form

      • Giulio Mattioli, Matteo Colleoni
      Pages 171-190

    4. Resident and Non-resident Populations: Types of Conflicts

      • Giampaolo Nuvolati
      Pages 191-203

  5. Mapping Mobility Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Metropolitan Dynamics and Mobility Flows: A National Comparative Study (1991–2011)

      • Mario Boffi, Matteo Colleoni
      Pages 207-229

    3. Mobility Practices in Peri-Urban Areas: Understanding Processes of Urban Regionalization in Milan Urban Region

      • Paola Pucci
      Pages 231-251

    4. Mobile Phone Data in Reading Mobility Practices

      • Fabio Manfredini, Paola Pucci, Paolo Tagliolato
      Pages 253-272

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 273-274
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About this book

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 in relation to the capacity to analyze, plan and design contemporary cities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Paola Pucci

  • Department of Sociology and Social Research, The University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Colleoni

About the editors

Paola Pucci, MSArch and PhD in Territorial Planning (IUAV, 1994), is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano. Dr. Pucci coordinates the PhD Course in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. She has also been a visiting professor at various European universities and taught at the Institut d’Urbanisme, Université Pierre Mendès, Grenoble (2009–2010). She has taken part in Italian and international research into infrastructure and mobility policies and has published books and articles in Italian and international journals. Her latest publications include work on an accessibility index, mobile phone network data as new sources for urban studies, identification of communities of practice through mobile phone data, and progress toward systemic usage of manifold cell phone network data for urban analysis and planning.

Matteo Colleoni is an Associate Professor in Urban Sociology and holds theChair of Urban Policies in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at Milan Bicocca University. He is also a member of many national and international organizations and networks on mobility and urban life. His research and teaching addresses issues of urban mobility, accessibility & transport exclusion, metropolitan areas & urban change, and time–space analysis. His most recent relevant publications in this context include La città attraente. Luoghi pubblici, mobilità e arte contemporanea (2014), Mobility, Accessibility and Social Equity: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Empirical Study in the Metropolitan Areas of Milan, Bologna and Turin (2013) and A GIS methodology for defining the metropolitan areas. The Italian case study (2012).

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