In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult. Drawing on archival research as well as wide-ranging forays into popular culture, Mom reveals here the roots of the exuberance, excess, and danger that define modern automotive culture.

The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.

Les gaz à effet de serre qu’il dégage dans l’atmosphère contribuent au dérèglement climatique, et la masse de touristes qu’il déverse aux quatre coins du monde abîme les milieux et les paysages. Comment imaginer que, comme le prévoit l’industrie aéronautique, le nombre d’appareils en circulation double et que le nombre de passagers quadruple d’ici à 2050 ? La crise sanitaire liée au coronavirus a provoqué la mise à l’arrêt du trafic aérien. Nous devons nous saisir, nous dit l’auteur, de ce moment historique pour nous interroger sur les effets de la frénésie touristique, du culte de la vitesse et de nos envies de « tout voir ». Tout en débusquant les pratiques de greenwashing du secteur de l’aviation et les fausses bonnes solutions (biocarburant, avion électrique), ce livre nous donne des pistes politiques (fermer les liaisons intérieures, rétablir les trains de nuit, en finir avec l’ultra-low cost) et individuelles pour entamer une décroissance aéronautique. Il ne s’agit pas de renoncer aux voyages et au plaisir de découvrir le monde, mais plutôt d’apprendre à voyager mieux.

It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe and analyse the world of urban mobilities. The Handbook of Urban Mobilities facilitates the understanding of urban mobilities within a historic conscience of societal transformation. It explores key concepts and theories within the ‘mobilities turn’ with a particular urban framework, as well as the methods and tools at play when empirical, urban mobilities research is undertaken. This book also explores the urban mobilities practices related to commutes; particular modes of moving; the exploration of everyday life and embodied practices as they manifest themselves within urban mobilities; and the themes of power, conflict, and social exclusion. A discussion of urban planning, public control, and governance is also undertaken in the book, wherein the themes of infrastructures, technologies and design are duly considered. With chapters written in an accessible style, this handbook carries timely contributions within the contemporary state of the art of urban mobilities research. It will thus be useful for academics and students of graduate programmes and post-graduate studies within disciplines such as urban geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, urban planning, traffic and transportation planning, and architecture and urban design.

abulary of science into a jagged but compelling lyric that telescopes from the vast to the cellular in the space of a line. Plastiglomerate completes a trilogy of poetry books that examines mankind’s impact on the earth; its central poem recycles the British folk ballad ‘The Twa Magicians’ to make an ecological protest song fit for the Anthropocene age. But among powerful depictions of the natural world under threat – from beached whales to lost birds – it is the humanity of Cresswell’s imagery that wins through: leaf-blowers in surgical masks, blue nail polish, the biro ‘leaking in the heat of my pocket’.

onditions under which these moves are being marshalled, represented and contested. This is an anthropological exploration of temporality as a form of action, a process of actively modulating or responding to how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading.

Le renouvellement de leurs concepts, de leurs méthodes et de leurs pratiques ne suffit plus à assurer leur pérennité. Face à cette impasse, Boris Grésillon propose une piste originale : et si la rencontre, l’entrelacement voire l’hybridation des sciences sociales et des arts leur permettaient de dépasser leurs limites et d’échafauder ensemble de nouveaux protocoles de travail, d’imaginer d’autres problématiques, d’inventer un langage commun ? Et si le pas de deux des arts et des sciences s’avérait scientifiquement fécond ? L’auteur explore cette hypothèse et la soumet à un examen théorique, pratique et opérationnel. Il en ressort un essai foisonnant, basé sur un corpus renouvelé autant que sur des récits concrets de rencontres fructueuses entre artistes et chercheurs.

succès planétaire en décalage avec les pratiques de sédentarité ou de sport en salle, tapis de course… prédominant dans nos sociétés. Cette passion contemporaine mêle des significations multiples pour le même marcheur : volonté de retrouver le monde par corps, de rompre avec une vie trop routinière, de peupler les heures de découvertes, suspendre les tracas du jour, désir de renouvellement, d’aventure, de rencontre. Une marche sollicite toujours au moins trois dimensions du temps : on la rêve d’abord, on l’accomplit, et ensuite on s’en souvient, on la raconte. Même terminée, elle se prolonge dans la mémoire et dans les récits que l’on en fait : elle vit en nous et est partagée avec les autres.

Elles sont organisées en trois parties consacrées respectivement à des voyages considérés pour leurs vertus initiatiques, au récit d'expériences au long cours et aux mobilités étudiantes.

The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru's burgeoning automobility to the city's history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the “regimes of congestion” that emerge to address the issue; an “infrastructurescape” that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an “automotive citizenship” (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses.