ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
Setting the stage
chapter 3|29 pages
Couples, the car, and the gendering of the life course
chapter 4|18 pages
Towards an anthropology of transport affect
part II|1 pages
Smart mobilities and overlaps
chapter 5|17 pages
Gender-sensitive mobility socialisation
chapter 8|13 pages
Smart gendered mobilities and lessons for gendered smart mobilities
part III|1 pages
Case studies
chapter 9|19 pages
Gender equality and ‘smart’ mobility
chapter 10|26 pages
The gendered dimension of multimodality
chapter 12|19 pages
Smart biking as gendered innovations and smart city experiment?
chapter 13|22 pages
Gendering smart mobilities in Latin America
chapter 14|19 pages
Smart as agency and human interaction
part |1 pages
Summing up