Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

- Introduction

- Mobility practices as a knowledge and design tool for urban policies

- A social science approach to the study of mobility

- Mobilities and the transformations of contemporary cities

- Mobilities and the city: moving beyond the car

- Putting Territory to the test of Reversibility

- Populations and rhythms in contemporary city

- Mobility practices, policy and project

- Inhabiting simultaneous lives: new mobilities practices and spatial transformations

- Searching for an integrate mobility project: the Pedemontana Motorway Project in the Northen Italy

- Mobilities, inequalities and conflicts

- Temporal efficiency and temporal justice in the city

- Mobility-related transport disadvantage

- Resident and non-resident urban population: types of conflicts

- Contested infrastructure projects: Searching cooperation without consensus

- Mapping mobility practices

- New Maps and Urban Languages through Digital Sources

- Open data for mapping mobility practices and urban transformations

- Mobile phone data for reading mobility practices

Paola Pucci, MSArch and PhD in Territorial Planning (IUAV, 1994), is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano. Dr. Pucci coordinates the PhD Course in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. She has also been a visiting professor at various European universities and taught at the Institut d'Urbanisme, Université Pierre Mendès, Grenoble (2009-2010). She has taken part in Italian and international research into infrastructure and mobility policies and has published books and articles in Italian and international journals. Her latest publications include work on an accessibility index, mobile phone network data as new sources for urban studies, identification of communities of practice through mobile phone data, and progress toward systemic usage of manifold cell phone network data for urban analysis and planning.

Matteo Colleoni is an Associate Professor in Urban Sociology and holds theChair of Urban Policies in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at Milan Bicocca University. He is also a member of many national and international organizations and networks on mobility and urban life. His research and teaching addresses issues of urban mobility, accessibility & transport exclusion, metropolitan areas & urban change, and time-space analysis. His most recent relevant publications in this context include La città attraente. Luoghi pubblici, mobilità e arte contemporanea (2014), Mobility, Accessibility and Social Equity: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Empirical Study in the Metropolitan Areas of Milan, Bologna and Turin (2013) and A GIS methodology for defining the metropolitan areas. The Italian case study (2012).