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Injustices in Urban Mobility: Understanding Place-Based Disparities and Prospects for Thriving Communities

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 8799

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Amy Lubitow

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Guest Editor
Department of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Interests: transportation justice; mobility justice; environmental sociology
Dr. Miriam J. Abelson

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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Interests: sexualities; intersections of gender, race, and sexuality; queer and LGBT studies; masculinities; transgender studies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue seeks to bring together the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary literature on place-based inequalities as they relate to mobility within urban areas. This issue will build upon existing scholarship in urban studies, geography, sociology, gender studies, and transportation studies. The purpose of the issue will be to include both articles that explore the realities of urban mobility injustices and those that also seek to offer ideas on interventions or solutions to reduce mobility inequalities and enhance community well-being. This Special Issue will provide a unique repository for multidisciplinary and multimethod work and will seek to elevate papers that speak to the social and spatial aspects of mobility. The goal of the issue is to move beyond empirical or highly technical demonstrations of inequalities and move toward a place of deeper theoretical understanding of the root causes of mobility injustices, with an eye toward potential solutions.

In this Special Issue, we seek to bring together interdisciplinary scholarship that engages urban mobilities from a variety of perspectives and welcome both empirical and theoretical papers. In particular, while we aim to critically diagnose the mechanisms that contribute to inequitable dynamics surrounding mobility and movement in urban places, we also encourage submissions that provide examples of instances in which community-oriented solutions have served to reduce mobility injustices. We are especially interested in papers exploring mobilities through the lenses of environmental justice, feminist geographies, and/or racial capitalism. Papers that center the experiences of historically marginalized communities are of particular interest for this Special Issue.

Some possible orienting topics include:

  • Spatial analyses that focus on the disparate impacts of gentrification, urban development, and transportation infrastructures;
  • Considerations of the intersections between transportation and housing, particularly as these relate to renters or those who are homeless;
  • Explorations of green gentrification and its impacts on community livability;
  • Barriers to transportation access for women, gender minorities, and/or people of color. Of particular interest are papers related to public transport and bicycling;
  • Immobilities linked to policing, surveillance, or concerns about harassment or violence;
  • Critical analyses of public policies;
  • Historically situated analyses of mobility within neighborhoods and cities.

Dr. Amy Lubitow
Dr. Miriam J. Abelson
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • mobilities
  • mobility justice
  • critical geographies

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Creating Sustainable Cities through Cycling Infrastructure? Learning from Insurgent Mobilities
by Aryana Soliz
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8680; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13168680 - 04 Aug 2021
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As policy makers grapple with rapid motorization processes, cycling facilities are gaining new urgency, offering non-polluting and affordable alternatives to automobility. At the same time, urban sustainability paradigms tend to focus on purely technical solutions to transportation challenges, leaving questions of history and [...] Read more.
As policy makers grapple with rapid motorization processes, cycling facilities are gaining new urgency, offering non-polluting and affordable alternatives to automobility. At the same time, urban sustainability paradigms tend to focus on purely technical solutions to transportation challenges, leaving questions of history and social power aside. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Aguascalientes Mexico, this article contributes to the transportation and mobility justice literature by focusing on the work of social movements in confronting a variety of challenges in the provision of active-transportation services. First, this research explores how social movements express and negotiate transportation-justice concerns to government and planning authorities. Next, I build on the concept of insurgent citizenship to highlight the processes through which residents contest ongoing injustices and formulate alternatives for building inclusive cities. From the creation of makeshift cycling lanes in underserved urban areas to the search for socially just alternative to policing, social movements are forging new pathways to re-envision sustainable transportation systems. These insurgent forms of citymaking—understood here as insurgent mobilities—underscore the creative role of citizens in producing the city as well as the enormous amount of care work involved in these processes. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Injustices in Urban Mobility: Understanding Place-Based Disparities and Prospects for Thriving Communities)
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Toward Coexistence of Immigrants and Local People in Japan: Implications from Spatial Assimilation Theory
by Koji Murayama and Jun Nagayasu
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 3849; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13073849 - 31 Mar 2021
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We investigate the validity of spatial assimilation theory (SAT), which predicts geographical dispersion of immigrants from ethnically concentrated areas to non-concentrated areas as time elapses. This can be tested by analyzing the concentration tendency among immigrants who arrive in Japan from overseas and [...] Read more.
We investigate the validity of spatial assimilation theory (SAT), which predicts geographical dispersion of immigrants from ethnically concentrated areas to non-concentrated areas as time elapses. This can be tested by analyzing the concentration tendency among immigrants who arrive in Japan from overseas and relocate within the country. Using spatial models, we find that immigrants from overseas tend to move to ethnically concentrated regions in Japan, which is in line with SAT. By contrast, this trend substantially weakens with their subsequent domestic relocation, and it differs by national group. The results reveal slow assimilation among nationals from countries characterized as being low-income or culturally dissimilar from Japan. Based on these findings, we discuss potential deficiencies in a new immigration policy (2018), which has been designed to increase the number of immigrants and compensate for a labor shortage in Japan. Full article
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The Travel Behaviour of Polish Women and Adaptation of Transport Systems to Their Needs
by Katarzyna Nosal Hoy and Sabina Puławska-Obiedowska
Sustainability 2021, 13(5), 2693; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13052693 - 02 Mar 2021
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Although knowledge of women’s travel behaviours is essential to guarantee equality in transport, there is still a lack of awareness of gender-differentiated behaviour and gender issues are not often incorporated into urban policy. The aim of the article is to present a first [...] Read more.
Although knowledge of women’s travel behaviours is essential to guarantee equality in transport, there is still a lack of awareness of gender-differentiated behaviour and gender issues are not often incorporated into urban policy. The aim of the article is to present a first attempt at a wider-scale diagnosis of women’s travel behaviours and needs as well as existing barriers to transportation access for woman in Poland, with respect to current findings. Documents on history, culture, social factors and labour market data were reviewed to indicate factors that may explain travel behaviours. The data of the Travel Studies for seven Polish cities were analysed to diagnose gender differences in travel. Public policies and initiatives were analysed to examine the level of awareness of women’s needs and the adaptation of transport to these needs. The results proved that the greatest differences in the trip purpose was observed for age group 25–49, in which women make more trips for errands, and men for work. Women travel more, which is observed among 25–59-year-olds, if the main occupation is considered. Women travel more on foot and by public transport, while men by private car and the results indicate that it is mostly visible for people aged 25–59. The age groups 39–49 for women and 30–49 for men are the most dependent on the car. The differences may be explained by historical, cultural and social factors, and these factors can be also seen as barriers to achieving equal access to transport. A low level of awareness of women’s mobility needs is one of the reasons that Polish transport systems are not fully adapted to their needs. Full article
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