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City-centre, pedestrianization and lifestyles

The "Macron buses," a low-cost mode of transportation put to the test of sustainability and desirability

Exploring environmental perspectives of future mobile lives

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Local policies of the mobility transition. The case of Belfort-Montbéliard

Internships abroad: what benefits for students in Alsace?

Sex, Love and Geolocation : a sociological study of Tinder

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NEO-NOMADS : A LIFESTYLE OF THE FUTURE ?

Ferjeux van der Stigghel

CIRCULATORY LIVES IN WESTERN INDIA

Ishan Tankha

TOWARDS SUBJECTIVE SOUND MAPPING

Swann Thommen

Texel. Reconquering time?

L. Hammadouche / I. Lallemand

Connected refugees

Ai Weiwei

Mobility in China:

A CHINESE VIEW OF 50 YEARS OF ACCELERATION

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Mobile / Immobile - exhibition

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Tim Cresswell, Mikaël Lemarchand, Géraldine Lay

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Why are free public transport initiatives gaining ground?

Maxime Huré

The future of free public transport: Dunkirk today, Paris tomorrow?

Maxime Huré

Electric mobility and the Chinese Middle Classes

David Tyfield

Does aviation have a place in a low-carbon world ?

Kevin Anderson

What are the alternatives to the personal vehicle in Greater Paris?

Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

Living a maximum of 30 minutes from work: the hypothesis of a "coherent city"

Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

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The Bicycle System

Frédéric Héran

The bicycle system refers to all the facilities, materials, services, regulations, information and skills [...]

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Mobilization

Sylvie Landriève, Dominic Villeneuve, Vincent Kaufmann, Christophe Gay

Mobilization is the action by which individuals are called upon to gather in the public space for a concerted [...]

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Bauman (Zygmunt)

Javier Caletrío

Zygmunt Bauman (1925 - 2017) was one of the greatest social theorists and public intellectuals of the late [...]

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Automobile dependence Symptoms, analyses, diagnosis, treatment, by Gabriel Dupuy (1999)

Caroline Gallez

La Mondialisation par le bas

Lamia Missaoui

The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition

Javier Caletrío

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Michel Hubert

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The future of cars: triumph or decline?

Francis Papon , Mathieu Flonneau

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Is mobility the answer to poverty ?

Leslie Belton Chevallier, Giulio Mattioli

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The self-driving car, a niche market or a true revolution?

By Christophe Gay and Sylvie Landriève, co-directors of Mobile Lives Forum

The car is at the center of our mobility system. It has shaped cities and territories, imposing its [...]

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The flying less movement

Javier Caletrio

Compared to the loud cacophony of disparate voices praising the virtues of driving less, cycling and walking, [...]

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From Constructed Scarcity and Mobility Austerity towards Mobility Commons?

Vivre à l'ère de la transition mobilitaire

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The Rise of run-commuting

Simon Cook

What Spaces for Highly Mobile People?

Bruna Vendemmia

Hanoi, a metamorphosis : from bicycles to motorbikes

Arve Hansen

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Mototaxis in Lima: an example of a successful coexistence between paratransit and official transportation

Hugo Plas

A tale of two cities? Everyday mobilities and individual opportunities in Bogotá, Colombia

Giovanni Vecchio, Geraldine Rodriguez

Dynamics of Movement in Argentina’s Sweatshop Economy

Matias Dewey, Katherine Walker, Sarah Pabst

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Bicycle Utopias: Fast and slow cycling futures

Begin : Tuesday 19 February 2019
End : Tuesday 19 February 2019

Reinventing Mobilities and Borders: Cross-disciplinary Conversations

Begin : Thursday 21 February 2019
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Journeys Exposed: Women’s Writing, Photography, and Mobility

Giorgia Alù

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John Urry

Social Scientist - Lancaster University

British sociologist John Urry (1946-2016) was Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University. He was co-founder and director of the Centre for Mobilities Research from 2004 to 2015 and, in 2015, he co-founded the Institute for Social Futures. He wrote seminal mobilities texts such as Sociology Beyond Societies and Mobilities.

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Rising oil prices put the brakes on cheap mobility

Chronicle with John Urry

What is the mobility turn ?

Video by John Urry

A new transport system for the electric car revolution

Chronicle with John Urry

The threat hanging over our global travel

Video by John Urry

Double standards for our onshore and offshore worlds?

Chronicle with John Urry

Space tourism: the final frontier?

Chronicle with John Urry

Is post-automobile mobility possible ?

Video by John Urry

What e-commerce does for carbon dioxide emissions

Chronicle with John Urry

Will we be taking ‘virtual holidays’ instead of travelling?

Chronicle with John Urry

Are driverless cars a part of the future?

Chronicle with John Urry

How will global warming turn mobility upside down ?

Chronicle with John Urry

Post Petroleum

Publication by John Urry

Treasure islands: hidden offshore worlds

Video by John Urry

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