1st Edition

Spaces for Highly Mobile People Emerging Practices of Mobility in Italy

By Bruna Vendemmia Copyright 2020
110 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how emerging mobility practices have transformed spaces in order to fit the needs of highly mobile people, as well as the changing relationship between people and territory. It establishes an interdisciplinary and a multiscalar approach to mobility analysis and mobility design through the application of a mobile method of research. Drawing on mobile people in Italy, the book... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgments

Foreword

PAOLA PUCCI

Introduction

1 Mobility and the spatial perspective

2 Research method

3 Mobility in the Italian context: Data and urban contexts

4 Reversible mobility the length and breadth of Italy: Redefining rhythms and territories

5 What spaces for highly mobile people?

6 Conclusions

7 Post-face opening: Working on mobility from people

VONCENT KAUFMANN

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Bruna Vendemmia is an architect and urban designer, with a PhD in urbanism. She is post-doctoral fellowship at DAStU Department of Excellence (Politecnico di Milano). Her main research interest focuses on spatial transformations engendered by contemporary changes in mobility practices. In her research she combines qualitative methods with interpretative mapping and spatial analysis to explore the consequences of mobile lives on the configurations of spaces and territorial relations.