Sustainable Urban Mobilities

The original contribution of this book is to consider the notion of mobility in relation to urban spaces and to sustainability, based on the analysis of French case studies from a European perspective and using multidisciplinary social sciences approaches

Mobilities are an essential issue in contemporary societies, which have recently been reexamined as a result of calls for ecological transition, on the one hand, and the impact of the global Covid 19 pandemic, on the other. The original contribution of this book is that it starts from the polysemic meaning of mobility, paying attention to different scales of perception and action, the lived spaces in which mobility occurs, and the alternative character of so-called sustainable mobilities and the actors who display or engage in such practices. The concept of mobilities is thus considered in relation to urban spaces and sustainability, based on the analysis of French case studies from a European perspective and using multidisciplinary social sciences approaches.

Autorentext

Philippe Hamman is a Full Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Urbanism and Regional Development of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the CNRS / University of Strasbourg joint research unit Societies, Actors and Government in Europe (UMR 7363). He holds the EU Jean Monnet Chair Governance of Integrated Urban Sustainability in Europe.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Current urban mobilities as "lived" spaces Part II Renewed urban mobilities as "alternatives" spaces? Conclusion: Sustainability and mobility: A transactional compromise Bibliography List of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Table of Contents