LIVRES

On the Move. Mobility in the Western World - by Tim Cresswell

Javier Caletrío

11/12/2012

On the Move examines how modes of imagining place, space, and mobility imbue everyday life with ideology. In so doing it provides a way of thinking mobilities in relation to each other and within broader historical contexts.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

CONTROVERSIES

“Mobility as capital” Sketching the arguments

Vincent Kaufmann, Hanja Maksim, Simon Borja, Guillaume Courty, Thierry Ramadier

11/12/2012

In the debate about economic and social integration, the possibilities and conditions related to geographical movement are becoming increasingly important. They are widely discussed, and people at home, at work, on holidays, etc must deal with their implementation. We hear it discussed on television, in political, economic and scientific debates, in museums, at school, and so on. In short, moving about now seems to be an important challenge in many aspects of our daily lives.

LIVRES

La transition urbaine ou le passage de la ville pédestre à la ville motorisée - by Marc Wiel

Yann Dubois

11/12/2012

Marc Weil’s La transition urbaine ou le passage de la ville pédestre à la ville motorisée sheds light on the impact of “facilitated mobility” on the city, including the transition from compact cities with pedestrian metrics to spread out, “splintered” ones founded primarily on car metrics, and the search for a new cultural and institutional identity.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

LIVRES

Les paradoxes de la mobilité : bouger, s’enraciner - by Vincent Kaufmann

Yann Dubois

11/12/2012

In Les paradoxes de la mobilité: bouger, s’enraciner, Vincent Kaufmann seeks to both highlight the ambivalence of mobility and to help define and conceptualize it in order to turn it into a tool for empirical research. To do so, the author provides an overview of mobility through several themes: travel, inequalities, urban transportation policies or the city – and ends with a series of hypotheses.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

LIVRES

Mobilities by John Urry

Javier Caletrío

10/12/2012

Mobilities examines how transport and communication systems enable social relations at a distance and their implications for social inequality and alternative social and environmental futures. It outlines a sociology of the future based on the study of complex mobile systems.

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Travel time and speed

Yves Crozet, Michel Leboeuf

10/12/2012

The following article provides two points of view, one from a university professor and the other from one of the SNCF’s leading experts on high-speed travel. Their views, which are largely complementary – but sometimes in opposition, offer an insight into a subject that goes well beyond the question of transport and involves matters of public policy, regional development planning and individual choice.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies