Introduction to the Special Section: Recreational mobilities in (and beyond) the compact city

What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and fo...

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Published in:Mobilities 2023-09, Vol.18 (5), p.691-699
Main Authors: Qviström, Mattias, Normark, Daniel, Luka, Nik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
cycling
Leisure
Metropolitan areas
Modernization
Rationalism
recreation
running
Urban areas
Urban planning
walking
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Summary:What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hope to demonstrate how such an approach is fruitful for grappling with the legacies of rationalism and modernism in spatial planning, with a focus on the contemporary ideal of the 'compact city' as both phenomenon and normative impulse that has come to dominate discourses of urban design and urban planning in recent decades. 1
ISSN:1745-0101
1745-011X
1745-011X
DOI:10.1080/17450101.2023.2235088