Urban Political Economy Ecology of Automobility Driving Cities Driving Inequality Driving Politics 1st Edition by Alan Walks 0415706157 9780415706155

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ISBN 10: 0415706157
ISBN 13: 9780415706155
Author: Alan Walks

Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, 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 rising indebtedness and the recent series of financial crises be related to automobile dependence and patterns of urban automobile use? To what extent does the system and economy of automobility factor in the production of urban socio-spatial inequalities, and how might these inequalities in mobility be understood and measured? What can we learn from the politics of mobility and social movements within cities? What is the role of automobility, and auto-dependence, in differentiating groups, both within cities and rural areas, and among transnational migrants moving across international borders? These are just some of the questions this book addresses. This volume provides a 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 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 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 neoliberalisms, 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. In the conclusion to the book Walks 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.

Urban Political Economy Ecology of Automobility Driving Cities Driving Inequality Driving Politics 1st Table of contents:

1 Driving cities: automobility, neoliberalism, and urban transformation
Part I Driving Vulnerability
2 Global automobility and social ecological sustainability
3 Automobility and resilience: a global perspective
4 Driven into debt? Automobility and financial vulnerability
5 Driven to school: social fears and traffic environments
Part II Driving Inequality
6 Driving the commute: getting to work in the restructuring auto-mobile city
7 Driving mobility, slowing down the poor: effective speed and unequal motility
8 Automobility and non-motorized transport in the global South: India, China, and the rickshaws of Dhaka
9 Automobility, adaptation, and exclusion: immigration, gender, and travel in the auto-city
10 Automobility’s others: migrant mobility, citizenship, and racialization
Part III Driving Politics
11 Driving the vote? Automobility, ideology, and political partisanship
12 Freeway removed: the politics of automobility in San Francisco
13 Political cycles: promoting velo-mobility in the auto-mobile city
14 Taking the highway: expressways and political protest
15 Post-automobility? Dealing with the auto-city

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