TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaufmann, Vincent
TI  - Rethinking the city : urban dynamics and motility
SN  - 2940222479
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Lausanne
PB  - EPFL Press
N1  - 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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