Extended Mobility for the City as a Common

""This book is an invitation–and a practical guide–to radically rethink mobility in cities, breaking with the prevalent profit seeking paradigm of offer/demand. It advocates for commoning decision-making processes in transportation and urban planning, for the adoption of inclusive and equitable accessibility measures, and for anti-stigmatization through participation, conviviality and solidarity"". Raquel Rolnik, Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing ""This book offers inspiration and insights through a fresh perspective on mobility that is both theoretically robust and solidly grounded in the lived experiences of urban citadins (i.e. citizens). By looking across the globe at a variety of urban contexts, the authors expose the constraints and possibilities for urban policy and planning to create new perceptions, motivations, and lived opportunities for the people who inhabit them."" Margaret Wilder, PhD, Executive Director, Urban Affairs Association ""The book extends our understandings of mobility to focus on people’s travel experiences through the entire urban continuum. It succeeds in bringing transport policy and planning under the direct scrutiny of the social sciences, offering pithy ethnographic case studies to position transport as a Commons to enhance citizens’ rights to the city."" Karen Lucas, Professor, University of Manchester, UK ""Mobility and immobility are extraordinary indicators of inequality in contemporary societies. The book explores what the right to mobility looks like in many parts of the world. It is precious because it does not content itself with describing the phenomenon but also points out ways to extend this right as a precondition for giving access to a good life."" Alessandro Balducci, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy ""This book offers a fresh and holistic perspective on urban mobility, and convincingly argues that mobility should be understood as a fundamental urban right, and the city as common, providing examples and lessons from the global North and South."" Karst Geurs, Professor, University of Twente, the Netherlands