CONTENTS
Introduction
Urban Mobility and Poverty: Lessons from Medellin and Soacha 9
Julio D Davila
01 : Society, Mobility, and the City
The Social Significance of Mobility 16
Peter Brand
Transport, Diversity, and the Socially Just City: The Significance of Gender Relations 23
Caren Levy
The Importance of the Experience of Mobility in Transport Planning.
Learning from Santiago de Chile 30
Paolajir6n
Transport, Technology, and Urban Development. : Reference Points for a Timeline 38
Hernando Vargas Caicedo -
02 : Lessons from Medellin: Aerial Cable-cars, Poverty, and Urban Development
Metrocables and 'Social Urbanism: Two Complementary Strategies 46
Peter Brand and Julio D. Davila
Medellin: Institutional Context and Urban Paradigm Change 55 Frangoise Coupe. Peter Brand and Julio D. Davila
Metrocables: Risk, Poverty, and Inclusion 68 Francoise Coupe
Metrocables and Travel Patterns in Medellin: Inclusion of Latent Variables in Transport Models 81
Ivan Sarmiento O., Jorge C6rdoba M., Angela Mejia G. and Laura Agudelo V.
Impact of the Metrocables on the Local Economy 89 Francoise Coupe and Juan Guillermo Cardona
Users' Daily Experience of Aerial Cable-Cars 104
Laura Agudelo V.. Angela Mejia G.. Ivan Sarmiento O. and Jorge Cordoba M.
Political Resonances of the Metrocables 115
Peter Brand
The Land-Use Links of Medellin's Metrocables 121
Ralph Gakenheimer
03 : An Outlandish Idea? Soacha's Cazucable
Soacha, the Cazucable, and Bogota D.C.: A Difficult Relationship 126
Nicolas Rueda Garcla and Luis Hernan Saenz
The Presidential Promise of an Aerial Cable-Car: Institutional Limitations and Political Realitie 136
Jorge Acevedo, Juan Miguel Velasquez and Juan Pablo Bocarejo
The Socio-Economic Context of Soacha's Commune 4: Vulnerability, Confinement, and Stigma 143 Maria Jos6 Alvarez Rivadulla and Diana Bocarej
Hoping to Be Seen: Perceptions of Commune 4's Inhabitants About the Possible Construction of
an Aerial Cable-Car System 149 Diana Bocarejo and Maria Jose Alvarez Rivadulla
Obstacles in the Implementation of 'Trendy' Transport Projects. : Reflections on the Soacha Case 155
Juan Pablo Bocarejo and Juan Miguel Velasquez
04 : A New Paradigm for Urban Transport? Experiences from Other Cities
Community Initiatives and Their Adoption by Local Government:
The MIOCABLE in Call, Colombia 164 Diana Daste
The San Agustin MetroCable in Caracas: The Price of Urban Integration 176
Nathalie Naranjo
La Paz-El Alto: The Old Dream of an Aerial Cable-Car 183
Freddy Koch
Context and Potential Impact of the Aerial Cable-Car on the Population of
Complexo de Alemao, Rio de Janeiro 191 Vania Regina Aruorim da Silva
05 : What Have We Learned from Medellin and Soacha? 201
Julio D Davila. Peter Brand, Jorge Acevedo and Juan Pablo Bocarejo
Notes on Contributors 208