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This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the
practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life
in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the
challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a
socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences and in urban
studies. Leading sociologists, economists, urban planners and
architects address the ways in which spatial mobilities contribute
to producing diversified uses of the city and describe forms and
rhythms of different life practices, including unexpected uses and
conflicts. The individual sections of the book focus on the role of
mobility in transforming contemporary cities; the consequences of
interpreting mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon for urban
projects and policies; the conflicts and inequalities generated by
the co-presence of different populations due to mobility and by the
interests gathered around major mobility projects; and the use of
new data and mapping of mobilities to enhance comprehension of
cities. The theoretical discussion is complemented by references to
practical experiences, helping readers gain a broader understanding
of mobilities in relation to the capacity to analyze, plan and
design contemporary cities.
This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the
practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life
in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the
challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a
socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences and in urban
studies. Leading sociologists, economists, urban planners and
architects address the ways in which spatial mobilities contribute
to producing diversified uses of the city and describe forms and
rhythms of different life practices, including unexpected uses and
conflicts. The individual sections of the book focus on the role of
mobility in transforming contemporary cities; the consequences of
interpreting mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon for urban
projects and policies; the conflicts and inequalities generated by
the co-presence of different populations due to mobility and by the
interests gathered around major mobility projects; and the use of
new data and mapping of mobilities to enhance comprehension of
cities. The theoretical discussion is complemented by references to
practical experiences, helping readers gain a broader understanding
of mobilities in relation to the capacity to analyze, plan and
design contemporary cities.
This book explains the potential value of using mobile phone data
to monitor urban practices and identify rhythms of use in today's
cities. Drawing upon research conducted in the Italian region of
Lombardy, the authors demonstrate how maps based on mobile phone
data, which are better tailored to the dynamic processes at work in
cities, can document urban practices, provide new insights into
spatial and temporal patterns of mobility, and assist in
recognizing different communities of practice. The described
methodology permits detailed visualization of the spatial
distribution of mobility flows and offers a more extensive and
refined description of the distribution of urban activity than is
provided by traditional travel surveys. The book also details how
maps derived by processing mobile phone data can assist in the
definition of urban policies that will deliver services that match
cities' needs, facilitate the management of large events (inflow,
outflow, and monitoring), and reflect time-dependent phenomena not
included in traditional analyses.
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of
PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the
European Commission under the call "Policy-development in the age
of big data: data-driven policy-making, policy-modelling and
policy-implementation". It investigates the operative and
organizational implications related to the use of the growing
amount of available data on policy making processes, highlighting
the experimental dimension of policy making that, thanks to data,
proves to be more and more exploitable towards more effective and
sustainable decisions. The first section of the book introduces the
key questions highlighted by the PoliVisu project, which still
represent operational and strategic challenges in the exploitation
of data potentials in urban policy making. The second section
explores how data and data visualisations can assume different
roles in the different stages of a policy cycle and profoundly
transform policy making.
This book investigates how established transport planning tools can
evolve to understand and plan for the ever-changing contemporary
mobilities that influence the opportunities available to
individuals. It discusses existing techniques, revised in the light
of the growing interest in the social implications of transport
planning decisions: these include analytical tools to interpret
consolidated and emerging phenomena, as well as operational tools
to tackle new and existing mobility demands and needs. The book
then addresses the implications of everyday mobility for
individuals and communities. The result of a continuous exchange
between the two authors, it brings together the results of their
various research projects. Despite referring to different objects
and settings, the work presented is connected by an underlying
interest in the impact that mobility has on people in an
increasingly mobile world, and the need to include such concerns
into mobility planning and policy.
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