Full Description
This book considers gender perspectives on the 'smart' turn in urban and transport planning to effect-ively provide 'mobility for all' while simultaneously attending to the goal of creating green and inclusive cities. It deals with the conceptualisation, design, planning, and execution of the fast-emerging 'smart' solutions.
The volume questions the efficacy of transformations being brought by smart solutions and highlights the need for a more robust problem formulation to guide the design of smart solutions, and further maps out the need for stronger governance to manage the introduction and proliferation of smart technologies. Authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds have contributed to this book, designed to converse with mobility studies, transport studies, urban-transport planning, engineering, human geography, sociology, gender studies, and other related fields.
The book fills a substantive gap in the current gender and mobility discourses, and will thus appeal to students and researchers studying mobilities in the social, political, design, technical, and environmental sciences.
Contents
Prologue PART I Setting the stage 1 Gendering smart mobilities: an introduction 2 Smart mobility - for all? Gender issues in the context of new mobility concepts 3 Couples, the car, and the gendering of the life course: what ordinary trip diary data from the past may tell us about smart mobilities in the future 4 Towards an anthropology of transport affect: the place of emotions, gender, and power in smart mobilities PART II Smart mobilities and overlaps 5 Gender-sensitive mobility socialisation: understanding mode choice of children and adolescents from a gender perspective 6 Smart cities, smart mobilities, and children 7 Cycling London: an intersectional feminist perspective 8 Smart gendered mobilities and lessons for gendered smart mobilities: economic migrants in Bristol, UK PART III Case studies 9 Gender equality and 'smart' mobility: a need for planning to address the real needs of all citizens 10 The gendered dimension of multimodality: exploring the bike-sharing scheme of Oslo 11 User experiences and perceptions of women-only transport services in Mexico 12 Smart biking as gendered innovations and smart city experiment? The case of Mobike in China 13 Gendering smart mobilities in Latin America: are 'smart cities' smart enough to improve social justice? 14 Smart as agency and human interaction: exploring the work of women bus conductors in Bengaluru, India 15 Some gender equality and equity planning cases in urban planning in Malmö, or how I became a transport feminist Summing up Epilogue: towards an intersectional understanding of transport transitions Index
