Experiencing networked urban mobilities : practices, flows, methods. Volume 2

Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities looks at the different experiences of networked urban mobilities. While the focus in the first book is on conceptual and theory-driven perspective, this second volume emphasizes the empirical investigation of networked urban mobilities. This book is a resource for researchers interested in the field to gain easy access and overviews of different themes and approaches represented in the mobilities paradigm. Review "This set of vignettes is an important addition to transport scholarship. It invigorates often overlooked and ordinary aspects of moving and waiting and it provides innovative examples of ethnography and participant observation. Pulling together different disciplines in the social sciences, this volume is sure to enliven the expanding critical mobilities research agenda." \*Jason Henderson, Professor, Geography and Environment, San Francisco State University \* About the Author Malene Freudendal-Pedersen is Associate Professor in Sustainable Mobilities at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has an interdisciplinary background linking sociology, geography, urban planning, and science and technology studies which she has been using to investigate praxes of mobilities and their significance for (future) cities. She is the co-manager of the international Cosmobilities Network, and the co-founder and co-editor of the new journal Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis). She is the author of the book Mobility in Daily Life: Between Freedom and Unfreedom. Katrine Hartmann-Petersen is Associate Professor in Planning and Mobilities at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has a transdisciplinary background investigating the interconnectedness between modern everyday life, urban planning, and mobilities. She also has experience as special advisor in municipality planning departments. She is a member of the Cosmobilities Network taskforce and book review editor of the new journal Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis). Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning Studies and Geography, and is currently a PhD student at Roskilde University, Denmark, and the Danish Architecture Centre. She studies how sharing and collaborative economic cooperations could be part of Danish urban governance and urban planning strategies. She is specifically interested in how different collaborative economic cooperations, communities, and organizations could help perform, develop, and run municipal key activities within environment and welfare. In the context of urban and mobilities studies, she pursues concepts as co-creation, communities, commons, governance, platforms, and process designs. Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 Notes on Contributors 14 Preface 25 1 Networked Urban Mobilities: Practices, Flows, Methods 28 Part I Moving and Pausing 38 2 ‘DING-DING-DONG’: Shifting Atmospheres in Mobilities Design 40 3 The Final Countdown: Ambiguities of Real Time Information Systems ‘Directing’ the Waiting Experience in Public Transport 46 4 Bus Stops Matter: An Ethnography of the Experience of Physical Activity and the Bus Stop Design 54 5 Solid Urban Mobilities: Buses, Rhythms, and Communities 59 6 On Social Cracks in Train Commuting 65 7 Road Radio: Taking Mobilities Research on the Road and Into the Air 70 8 Managing Mobilities in the Working Context 75 9 Tracing Trans-Atlantic Romani Im/Mobilities: Doing Ethnography in a Hyper-Mobile Field 79 Part II Communities and Collaborations 84 10 The Little Mermaid Is a Portal: Digital Mobility and Transformations 86 11 Viscosities and Meshwork: Assembling Dynamic Pathways of Mobilities 91 12 Parked Students, Surfing Workers, and Working in Third Places With Mobile Technology 95 13 Urban Borderlands of Mobility: Ethnographic Fieldwork Amongst Unconventional Elderly City People 100 14 Understanding Everyday Mobilities Through the Lens of Disruption 105 15 Experiences of Mobile Belonging 110 16 The Spaces, Mobilities, and Soundings of Coding 115 17 Mobility, Media, and the Experiences of Airbnb’s Aesthetic Regime 121 Part III Modes and Emotions 126 18 Senses Matter: A Sensory Ethnography of Urban Cycling 128 19 Feeling Community: Emotional Geographies on Cycling Infrastructure 133 20 Urban Velomobility and the Spatial Problems of Cycling 139 21 The Role of the Driver-Car Assemblage in the Practices of Long-Distance Aeromobility 146 22 U.Move 2.0: The Spatial and Virtual Mobility of Young People 150 23 Inhabiting Infrastructures: The Case of Cycling in Copenhagen 156 24 Comparing and Learning From Each Other for a Better Cycling Future 162 25 The Velomobilities Turn 166 Part IV Sites and Strategies 172 26 Governing Everyday Mobilities: Policymaking and Its Realities 174 27 Planning for Sustainable Mobilities: Creating New Futures or Doing What Is Possible? 179 28 Let People Move! The New Planning Paradigm of ‘Shared Spaces’ 185 29 Travels, Typing, and Tales 190 30 Are Emerging Mobility Practices Changing Our Urban Spaces? A Close Look at the Italian Case 197 31 (In)Consequential Planning Practices: The Political Pitfall of Mobility Policymaking in Lisbon’s Metropolitan Area 202 32 Motility Meets Viscosity in Rural to Urban Flows 207 33 Routes and Roots: Studying Place Relations in Multilocal Lifeworlds 212 Index 216 Edited By Malene Freudendal-pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-petersen And Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.