Cities, practices, and representations in motion: notes for a cultural analysis of mobility as an urban experience

This essay introduces some key notions from the “mobility turn” to understand and define the experience of urban mobility from a critical reading of urban and transport studies as well as social sciences, in general, and particularly in Latin America. It states that cities are spaces of circulation...

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Published in:Tempo social : revista de sociologia da USP 2018-01, Vol.30 (2), p.35-54
Main Author: Singh, Dhan Zunino
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Cities
Culture
Experience
Mobility
Urban areas
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Summary:This essay introduces some key notions from the “mobility turn” to understand and define the experience of urban mobility from a critical reading of urban and transport studies as well as social sciences, in general, and particularly in Latin America. It states that cities are spaces of circulation and stresses the importance of circulation to the production of urban space. The social modern theory tradition has fuelled the idea that transit spaces are non-places, yet human movements within the city are ways of dwelling and, thus, mobilities are social and meaningful practices. Finally, urban mobility experience is characterized through examples like automobility.
ISSN:0103-2070
1809-4554