ABSTRACT
This chapter explains mobilizing transportation, transporting mobilities and brings a welcome addition to these conversations through its careful case studies of transportation politics at the interface of urban geography and mobilities studies in specific cities located in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. These diverse cases illustrate how transportation planning decision is grounded in, and has long-lasting impacts on, urban spatiality, urban inequality, and urban culture. The chapter helps to really get down into the nitty-gritty of urban politics and transport geographies, to see some of the processes driving these slow transitions. It offers some excellent examples of how to proceed in answering these kinds of questions, unpacking the urban politics of contested mobility in a range of specific cities while maintaining an awareness of the qualitative and experiential dimensions of diverse mobility practices. In doing so, they offer a productive way forward for transportation geography as a crucial tool for understanding 21st-century urban spatial production.
