ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to reconceptualize city-regional politics of mobility through the insights, tensions, and political projects at the intersection of dialectical materialist urban analysis and critical mobilities studies. It argues that illuminating the divergent production and lived experience of Toronto's Zwischenstadt opens the potential for a progressive politics of mobility to materialize from the emergent polycentricism of the neoliberal city-region. It also highlights the multiscalar and multifaceted nature of urban transportation and point towards how a critical dialectical reading of this analytical lens can foster a progressive city-regional politics of mobility. The chapter has deployed a dialectical understanding of urban transportation to examine how city-regions are produced and governed as territorial and relational urban spaces. Developing an argument through the concrete spaces and grounded flows of the Toronto global city-region, it asserts that the spatial politics of city-regional urbanization operate through a diverse constellation of social and spatial mobilities.
