Urban motorways inducing mobility and immobility

Oscar Figueroa, Carole Gurdon and Paulette Landon

Chapter 18 in Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, 2024, pp 284-295 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: From a perspective that articulates mobility justice with the spatial and social impacts of urban motorways, this chapter focuses on how infrastructure can induce ambivalent dynamics of mobility and immobility within a metropolitan area, in this case Santiago de Chile. While high-income areas enjoy better accessibility at a metropolitan scale, in low-income areas the infrastructure may result in reducing access to the city and even the ability of residents to move within their neighbourhood. Infrastructure is here approached as a processual and relational object that needs to be analysed through qualitative, situated and multi-scalar approaches that focus on local mobility practices in space and time, to avoid generalisations and to move towards a better understanding of socio-spatial segregation dynamics that in a neoliberal context can be reinforced by infrastructure.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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