Overview
- 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)
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Mobilities and the Transformations of Contemporary Cities
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Mobility Practices, Policy and Project
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Mobilities, Inequalities and Conflicts
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities
Editors: Paola Pucci, Matteo Colleoni
Series Title: Research for Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22578-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22577-7Published: 15 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79412-9Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22578-4Published: 08 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2198-7300
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7319
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 274
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Regional/Spatial Science, Human Geography, Transportation, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks