Ole B. Jensen - Mobilities Design: Urban Designs for Mobile Situations

Ole B. Jensen and Ditte Bendix Lanng

First published 2017
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Names: Jensen, Ole B., author. | Lanng, Ditte Bendix, author.
Title: Mobilities design : urban designs for mobile situations /
by Ole B. Jensen & Ditte Bendix Lanng.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007720| ISBN 9781138852983 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315723099 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: City planning. | Pedestrian areas. | Urban transportation
Social aspects. | Spatial behavior. | Human geography.
Classification: LCC HT166 .J446 2016 | DDC 307.1/216dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016007720

ISBN: 978-1-138-85298-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-72309-9 (ebk)

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We do it everyday: walk, drive, bike through mundane landscapes of someone elses design and intentionality. The built environment and our habitual movements within it are a mundane and very ordinary life background for all of us. At the same time, however, we want to invite you to embark on a journey through this familiar territory, after which we hope to have defamiliarized and denaturalized these mundane infrastrutural landscapes for you. The key interest of this book is to render these ordinary sites and mundane practices differently and full of potentials for new experiences, different activities, alternative practices and forms of interaction. We see the redescription of the familiar leading to the unfamiliar and new insights as the most important contribution of this research to society. The field of mobilities, design and everyday life is the venue for our contributions to that trajectory. The aim of this book is to see how an urban design agenda and a mobilities-research framework may intersect through the new and emerging field of mobilities design, to which this book is a key contribution. It is a reflection of many years of research into mobilities, as well as the fact that the authors represent the two rather disparate fields of urban design and sociology. However, we have the firm intention of neglecting this distance of thought and practice and of joining forces in an argument for connecting mobilities theory and urban design.