ABSTRACT
Mobilities studies often concentrate on movement and travel and overlook the other side of that coin, which is immobility and rootedness. In this paper, the heuristic concept of ‘plug&play places’ is introduced, which allows for an understanding of the subjectivity of the standardization of places, and which complements scientific findings about the objective standardization of places. Imagining place relations in multilocal lifeworlds as the subjective construction of plug&play attachments helps to grasp the interplay of mobility and immobility and to understand how new forms of flexible rootedness emerge in the frame of networked urban mobilities.
