Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen is Associate Professor in Sustainable Mobilities at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has an interdisciplinary background linking sociology, geography, urban planning, and science and technology studies which she has been using to investigate praxes of mobilities and their significance for (future) cities. She is the co-manager of the international Cosmobilities Network, and the co-founder and co-editor of the new journal Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis). She is the author of the book Mobility in Daily Life: Between Freedom and Unfreedom.Katrine Hartmann-Petersen is Associate Professor in Planning and Mobilities at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has a transdisciplinary background investigating the interconnectedness between modern everyday life, urban planning, and mobilities. She also has experience as special advisor in municipality planning departments. She is a member of the Cosmobilities Network taskforce and book review editor of the new journal Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis).Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning Studies and Geography, and is currently a PhD student at Roskilde University, Denmark, and the Danish Architecture Centre. She studies how sharing and collaborative economic cooperations could be part of Danish urban governance and urban planning strategies. She is specifically interested in how different collaborative economic cooperations, communities, and organizations could help perform, develop, and run municipal key activities within environment and welfare. In the context of urban and mobilities studies, she pursues concepts as co-creation, communities, commons, governance, platforms, and process designs.

"This set of vignettes is an important addition to transport scholarship. It invigorates often overlooked and ordinary aspects of moving and waiting and it provides innovative examples of ethnography and participant observation. Pulling together different disciplines in the social sciences, this volume is sure to enliven the expanding critical mobilities research agenda." Jason Henderson, Professor, Geography and Environment, San Francisco State University

• Notes on Contributors Preface1. Networked Urban Mobilities: Practices, Flows, Methods Part I: Moving and Pausing 2. 'DING-DING-DONG': Shifting Atmospheres in Mobilities Design 3. The Final Countdown: Ambiguities of Real Time Information Systems 'Directing' the Waiting Experience in Public Transport 4. Bus Stops Matter: An Ethnography of Experience of Physical Activity and the Bus Stop Design 5. Solid Urban Mobilities: Buses, Rythms, and Communities 6. On Social Cracks in Train Commuting 7.Road Radio: Taking Mobilities Research on the Road and Into the Air 8. Managing Mobilities in the Working Context 9. Tracing Trans-Atlantic Romani Im/Mobilities: Doing Ethnography in a Hyper-Mobile Field Part II: Communities and Collaborations 10. The Little Mermaid Is a Portal: Digital Mobility and Transformations 11. Viscosities and Meshwork: Assembling Dynamic Pathways of Mobilities 12. Parked Students, Surfing Workers, and Working in Third Places with Mobile Technology 13. Urban Borderlands of Mobility: Ethnographic Fieldwork Amongst Unconventional Elderly City People 14. Understanding Everyday Mobilities Through the Lens of Disruption 15. Experiences of Mobile Belonging 16. The Spaces, Mobilities, and Soundings of Coding 17. Mobility, Media, and the Experiences of Airbnb’s Aesthetic Regime Part III: Modes and Emotions 18. Senses Matter: A Sensory Ethnography of Urban Cycling 19. Feeling Community: Emotional Geographies on Cycling Infrastructure 20. Urban Velomobility and the Spatial Problems of Cycling 21. The Role of the Driver-Car Assemblage in the Practices of Long-Distance Aeromobility 22. U.Move 2.0: The Spatial and Virtual Mobility of Young People 23. Inhabiting Infrastructures: The Case of Cycling in Copenhagen 24. Comparing and Learning from Each Other for a Better Cycling Future 25. The Velomobilities Turn Part IV: Sites and Strategies 26. Governing Everyday Mobilities: Policymaking and Its Realities 27. Planning for Sustainable Mobilities: Creating New Futures or Doing What Is Possible? 28. Let People Move! The New Planning Paradigm of ‘Shared Spaces’ 29. Travels, Typing, and Tales 30. Are Emerging Mobility Practices Changing our Urban Spaces? A Look at the Italien Case 31. (In)Consequential Planning Practices: The Political Pitfall of Mobility Policymaking in Lisbon’s Metropolitan Area 32. Motility Meets Viscosity in Rural to Urban Flows 33. Routes and Roots: Studying Place Relations in Multilocal Lifeworlds