Just how resilient are our urban societies (to energy,
environmental and/or financial shocks, etc), 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 the
recent series of financial crises be related to automobile
dependence and patterns of urban automobile use? What is the
influence of the automobile in the production of urban
socio-spatial inequalities, and how might inequalities in mobility
be understood and measured? What has been the role of automobility,
and auto-dependence, in differentiating forms of citizenship, both
within cities and rural areas, and among transnational migrants
moving across international borders? How is the auto-mobile city
implicated in the rise of neoliberal ideology, and how has it
affected electoral campaigns and results? What can we learn from
the politics of mobility and social movements within cities? What
can we do to fashion more socially just and resilient cities? These
are some of the questions this book addresses.This volume provides
an 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 Urban
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 Urban 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 neoliberalism, 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. The conclusion to the book 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. The book is
original and useful in advancing the body of knowledge through the
application of abstract concepts in the automobility literature to
the study of the city, but also by providing in each chapter
comparative empirical analysis quantifying a range of measures by
which such concepts were applied.The book will be useful for those
working on theorizing the city and automobility, and those
conducting empirical analyses on these issues (mobility-based
inequalities and as a guide for political strategizing and
negotiating the politics and policies of the auto-mobile city.
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