Front cover image for Mobilities

Mobilities

John Urry
Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations.
Print Book, English, 2007
Polity, Cambridge, 2007
vii, 335 p. ; 23 cm
9780745634180, 9780745634197, 0745634184, 0745634192
427537722
Preface. Part 1 Mobile worlds. 1. Mobilizing social life. 2. ‘Mobile’ theories and methods. 3. The mobilities paradigm. Part 2 Moving and communicating. 4. Pavements and Paths. 5. ‘Public’ trains. 6. Inhabiting cars and roads. 7. Flying around. 8. Connecting and imagining. Part 3 Societies and systems on the move. 9. Gates to heaven and hell. 10. Networks. 11. Meetings. 12. Places. 13. Systems and dark futures. Bibliography. Index