Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space
This chapter advances our understanding of the politics of transportation by engaging the insights, tensions and political impacts emerging between dialectical materialism and the mobilities turn. Despite key incompatibilities, the conceptual sparks generated illuminate how the politics of city-regi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Routledge
2015
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Add Tag | Summary: | This chapter advances our understanding of the politics of transportation by engaging the insights, tensions and political impacts emerging between dialectical materialism and the mobilities turn. Despite key incompatibilities, the conceptual sparks generated illuminate how the politics of city-regional urbanization operate through a diverse constellation of social and spatial mobilities. Empirical analysis of the Toronto global city-region demonstrates that strategic investments in urban transportation follow neoliberal logics but also open the possibility for a progressive politics of mobility to emerge from the polycentricism of city-regional space. |
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| Physical Description: | 303 pages 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781138891340 |
Urban transport