Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy,
environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among
cities and nations? Can our cities be made more sustainable, and
can environmental, economic and social collapse be staved off
through changes in urban form and travel behaviour? How might
rising indebtedness and the recent series of financial crises be
related to automobile dependence and patterns of urban automobile
use? To what extent does the system and economy of automobility
factor in the production of urban socio-spatial inequalities, and
how might these inequalities in mobility be understood and
measured? What can we learn from the politics of mobility and
social movements within cities? What is the role of automobility,
and auto-dependence, in differentiating groups, both within cities
and rural areas, and among transnational migrants moving across
international borders? These are just some of the questions this
book addresses. This volume provides a holistic and reflexive
account of the role played by automobility in producing,
reproducing, and differentiating social, economic and political
life in the contemporary city, as well as the role played by the
city in producing and reproducing auto-mobile inequalities. The
first section, titled Driving Vulnerability, deals with issues of
global importance related to economic, social, financial, and
environmental sustainability and resilience, and socialization. The
second section, Driving Inequality, is concerned with understanding
the role played by automobility in producing urban socio-spatial
inequalities, including those rooted in accessibility to work,
migration status and ethnic concentration, and new measures of
mobility-based inequality derived from the concept of effective
speed. The third section, titled, Driving Politics, explores the
politics of mobility in particular places, with an eye to
demonstrating both the relevance of the politics of mobility for
influencing and reinforcing actually existing neoliberalisms, and
the kinds of politics that might allow for reform or restructuring
of the auto-mobile city into one that is more socially, politically
and environmentally just. In the conclusion to the book Walks draws
on the findings of the other chapters to comment on the
relationship between automobility, neoliberalism and citizenship,
and to lay out strategies for dealing with the urban car system.
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