Mobility, Sociability and Well-being of Urban Living

“This edited book is a worthwhile addition to the well-being literature and is written in a very accessible form. It provides important insights into the role that geography and spatial scale play in understanding the interplay of mobility, sociability and well-being in our complex urban worlds.” (Jonathan Corcoran, Urban Studies, Vol. 55 (9), 2018)

• Introduction.- 1. Travel mode and subjective well-being.- 2. Effects of urban residents’ mobility biographies on their current quality of life: A life history analysis.- 3.The association between travel and satisfactions with travel and life: Evidence from Twin Cities.- 4. Mobility and quality of life of the elderly in urban China: the role of household structure.- 5. Reappropriation through occupation: interrogating roadside parking in Chinese cities at a time of mass motorization.- 6. Studies on Wellbeing, Geography and Mobility: State-of-the-Art, Gaps and Future Directions.- 7. Planning and urban plagues.- 8. Moderating effect of community attachment on individual well-being under heat wave.- 9. China’s new generation migrant workers’ urban experience and well-being.- 10. Between mobility and immobility - Undocumented African migrants living in the shadow of the Chinese state.- 11. Urban Villages as Contested Social Spaces in Urban China.- 12. Disciplined mobility and the experience of migrant subalternity: the politics of motorcycle taxis in Guangzhou.- 13. Analysis of the home care satisfaction of urban elderly in Beijing.- 14. The state of being healthy in social housing communities of urban China: A case of Guangzhou.