ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book uses urban transportation as a lens through which to rethink mobility. By adding transportation to the urban mobility equation, the book significantly deepens and extends the empirical scope of relational thinking about the production of urban space. Several chapters in the book are able to shed light on how the infrastructural and mobility needs of the competition state engender tensions and conflicts more or less around the scale of the city-region. It examines how rules and regulations governing flows of traffic and people are interpreted and enacted by residents in 'ordinary cities' and to use these insights to advance critical urban theory. transportation mobility provides an opportunity to investigate tensions and struggles around the territorial structures of the competition state. Finally, the governance of mobility feeds into new representations and imaginaries of city-regions and the spaces in between.
