Mobility and Social Cohesion in the Splintered City: Challenging Technocentric Transport Research and Policy-making Practices

Konrad Miciukiewicz and Geoff Vigar

Urban Studies, 2012, vol. 49, issue 9, 1941-1957

Abstract: This paper argues that dominant research practices in the urban transport field add to rather than subtract from social cohesion and mobility inequities. While this is recognised as an on-going political struggle, it is also explained through a failure to mobilise consistently a broad definition of social cohesion in transport research and policy-making; and a technology fixation among communities of transport research and practice, particularly in the commissioning of European Commission research. Elements of a new urban mobility agenda are proposed to address mobility challenges and to improve the fostering of urban social cohesion.

Date: 2012
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