Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pucci, Paola (Editor), Colleoni, Matteo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Research for Development,
• Subjects: Geography.; Transportation.; Urban geography.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Human geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Regional/Spatial Science.; Human Geography.; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.

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 a...