CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Can universities learn to leave behind air travel?

Tamara Ben Ari, Parke Wilde

10/10/2024

At a time when global research is showing that aviation is a carbon-intensive form of transport whose growth absolutely must be stopped, shouldn't universities be the first to set an example? But can researchers, especially the youngest ones, do without these trips for their careers? How can researchers continue to work together and what criteria should govern their behaviour?

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

CONTROVERSIES

The “15-minute city”: the way forward or an ideological mirage?

Carlos Moreno, Pierre Veltz

11/04/2022

Everyone having everything within fifteen minutes of their home: this is the promise of the fifteen-minute city. The idea of a city that is peaceful because of the proximity it allows and ecological because of the reduction in travel that it entails has gained ground, and it is now part of media debates and political programmes. But are its promises really feasible? Is it fair? Is it even desirable? Carlos Moreno, the father of the fifteen-minute city, and Pierre Veltz, who questions its…

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

CONTROVERSIES

The future of cars: triumph or decline?

Francis Papon , Mathieu Flonneau

13/01/2017

Over the last decade, the future of cars has been at the heart of controversy that has been the subject of numerous prospective studies. This controversy is not about the need for an energy transition – whose advent is no longer a subject of debate - but more about the role of cars in the future. Should the use of cars be called into question? What policies should be implemented? What should the role of cars be?

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Motility and viscosity: a new understanding of mobility for better policy making

Vincent Kaufmann, Catherine Doherty

07/06/2016

Through the study of mobility practices in Australia and European countries, sociologists Catherine Doherty and Vincent Kaufmann develop two different but complementary analyses of mobility potential on an individual and contextual level. Will these new concepts help further our understanding of mobility practices and renew public action in very different national contexts? Both authors feel this will be the case and explain why.

CONTROVERSIES

Multi-Level Perspective and Theories of Practice: a mistaken controversy?

Dale Southerton, Matt Watson

25/11/2015

In the thriving field of sustainability transitions, an interesting discussion has flourished about the merits of and relationship between two analytical approaches, known as multi-level models of innovation and theories of social practice.

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Internet, territories and centralities

Benjamin Bayart, Boris Beaude

16/04/2015

Boris Beaude, a geographer, and Benjamin Bayart, an engineer and ardent supporter of freedom of expression, discuss the tensions that have arisen concerning the internet, the main platform for virtual mobility. Designed as something without a centre, which could not be fully controlled and would free people from regional limitations, the internet seems unable to deliver on these promises – as a result of pre-existing constraints.