Staging Mobilities

Staging Mobilities is about the fact that mobility is more than movement between point A and B. It explores how the movement of people, goods, information, and signs influences human understandings of self, other and the built environment. Moving towards a new understanding of the relationship between movement, interaction and environment

List of contents

Part I: Staging Mobilities: Review and Positioning 1. Staging Mobilities: Introduction 2. The Mobile City: Reviewing and Positioning Part II: Framing Mobilities 3. Physical Settings, Material Spaces and Design 4. Facework, Flow and the City 5. Mobile Embodied Performances Part III: Practices of Mobilities 6. Networked Technologies and the Will to Connection 7. Negotiation in Motion: Unpacking a Geography of Mobility 8. Metro Mobilities: The Production of Lived Mobility in Urban Metro Systems Part IV: Towards a Sociology of Staging Mobilities 9. Materialities of Mobilities: Learning from the Design Fields 10. Staging Mobilities: Conclusion. Bibliography

About the author

Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory at Aalborg University, Denmark. His main research interests are mobilities and urban studies. He is the co-author of Making European Space (with Tim Richardson, Routledge) and has published extensively on mobility research in the journals Mobilities, Culture and Space, and Urban Studies.

Summary

Staging Mobilities is about the fact that mobility is more than movement between point A and B. It explores how the movement of people, goods, information, and signs influences human understandings of self, other and the built environment. Moving towards a new understanding of the relationship between movement, interaction and environment

Product details

• Authors: Ole B. Jensen, Jensen Ole B.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032926506
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92650-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Series: International Library of Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Social, group or collective psychology, Interdisciplinary studies, Regional & area planning, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Regional and area planning, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building