Rethinking the city : urban dynamics and motility (Record no. 28775)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 2940222479 |
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| Classification number | 307.76 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kaufmann, Vincent |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Rethinking the city : urban dynamics and motility |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Lausanne |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | EPFL Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x,157p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | CONTENTS Preface Rethinking the city ix Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1Cities that change but do not disappear 1 2 Grasping the transformation of city and territory through mobility .3 3 Avoid generalizations 4 4 Confront theory with practice 5 5 Consider the substance of city and territory 6 6 Scope and limits of this work 7 Chapter 1 Rethinking urban theory 11 1.1 Introductionn 11 1.2 Three theoretical principles13 1.2.1 Reconciling abstract and sensory approaches to the city and the urban 15 1.2.2 Opening up the static conception of space17 1.2.3 Considering that first and foremost mobility is change, not movement 20 Chapter 2Defining mobility23 2.1 Introduction 23 2.2 The gradual fragmentation of mobility studies in the social sciences24 2.2.1 The pioneering work 24 2.2.2 Fragmentation of the research 25 2.2.3 Daily Mobility 26 2.2.4 Residential mobility 27 2.2.5 Migration 28 2.2.6 Tourism29 2.3 The need for an integrative approach30 2.3.1 Postwar changes in society30 2.3.2 The need for an integrated approach to mobility 32 2.3.3 Wnv do we move? That is the entire question 35 2.4 From mobility to motility35 2.4.1 Mobility as a system: a starting point 35 2.4.2 Towards a new conceptualization of mobility 37 2.5 The importance of motility 40 2.6 Measuring motility 41 2.6.1 Access 41 2.6.2 Skills and knowledge 42 2.6.3 Desires and aspirations 43 2.6.4Mobility as a system 44 2.6.5 The field of possibilities as perspective 46 Chapter 3Describing the city based on mobility 49 3.1 lntroduction49 3.2 Defining the territory50 3.3 Realms of human experience and societal organization 51 3.4 Actors' motility and its translation in time and space 54 3.4.1 The possibility of taking possession technical systems 54 3.4.2 The mixing of models 55 3.4.3 Research of reversibility56 3.4.4Three logics for the constitution of social network58 3.4.5 The material sedimentation of action 59 3.5 Potential receptiveness as a vehicle of transformation59 3.6 The meeting of actors and environment 61 3.7 Towards a provisional definition of the city 63 Chapter 4The individual motilities that make the city65 4.1 Introduction 65 4.2 Five empirical observations 66 4.2.1 Cities are lauded for the mobility they offer and criticized for the commuting times they impose on actors when they are unable to take it possession 66 4.2.2 Apart from mobility.the qualities of life sought after by those who choose to live in the city were diverse and thus an expression of residential lifestyles 69 4.2.3 Individuals' mobility in the public spaces of their daily lives depends not only on the diversity and number of services and amenities available but also on their ease of use. A comfortable space lets individuals create their own mobility opportunities 73 4.2.4The fact that an environment's receptiveness to residential choice is often limited and localized is at the heart of social inequalities when it come to residential lifestyles.77 4.2.5 A space's receptiveness to lifestyles can be misleading to the point of challenging residential choices 81 4.3 Conclusion 84 Chapter 5The collective motilities that make the city87 5.1 Introduction . 87 5.2 The motility of public actors 88 5.3 The motility of private actors 89 5.4 Three suggestions regarding actors' ability to change the receptiveness of a given environment 91 5.5 Empirical explorations 92 5.5.1 Three axes that structure ad hoc decision-making 93 5.5.2 Long-term mobility of public action:from trajectories to paths of change 99 5.6 Conclusion 108 Chapter 6 Artifacts and motility 111 6.1 Introduction 111 6.2 Artifacts and sedimentation 111 6.3 Long temporalities, inertia and change 112 6.4Speed potentials, motility and urban dynamics113 6.5 Empirical investigations 115 6.5.1 Artifacts: seducers giving way to projects 115 6.5.2 Artifacts: makers of Iifestyles117 6.5.3 Artifacts and access: a complex relationship 122 6.6 Conclusion 129 Rethinking the City Chapter 7The city as a potential host: ten facts regarding the mobility of cities and its governance 133 7.1 Introduction 133 7.2 Ten theses on the city and region 134 7.3 Argument for regulating motility 142 7.4 Change levers for impacting the city and region 144 Bibliography 145 Index of key concepts and authors 155 |
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