ABSTRACT
Urban transportation and places of flow are the very embodiments of the fundamental networked material and social processes that constitute city life. They provide a literal and metaphorical intersection where we may witness and theorize the dialectical relations between place, transport infrastructure, and mobile bodies. Taking an urban geographical perspective on movement-in-place thus provides an ideal place to connect largely parallel debates in transportation geography and mobilities. Towards an integrative and grounded perspective that helps scholars and practitioners fully rethink urban places from the neighborhood street to global city networks, and the key conceptual and policy questions surrounding them. Transportation geography's positivist emphasis has to some degree distanced it from vibrant debates about the social and political dimensions of mobility. By standing at the intersection of key debates in urban, transportation, and mobilities studies, this chapter provides an integrative way to approach some of the major conceptual and practical challenges of 21st-century urban life.
