ABSTRACT
Whether physical, virtual, social, or ideational, mobility is gaining in complexity in cities and urban regions today. The mobilities paradigm moves beyond traditional understandings of everyday movement in urban areas to foster reflection on how such movement is experienced as well as how it is made meaningful by collectives. Policymakers need to consider diverse mobilities, seen in this chapter as the socially shared meanings of specific formations of mobility or ‘mobility realities,’ in their policy practices. Through deliberating and reflecting on such realities, policymakers can develop a better understanding of how everyday mobilities are governed as well as how they can govern such mobilities.
