商品簡介
This collection of fourteen articles on movement and space examines the concepts of mobility and mobility technologies and explores their relationship to conceptions of home, away, and the meanings of places. Essays cover a wide range of example locations and themes and include discussions of topics such as migration research through digital technologies, narrative explorations of place in Seattle, airline advertisement and the promotion of aeromobility, personal communications technology as mobility aids, and the sociology of traffic. Contributors are academics in sociology and architectural and civil engineering fields from universities around the world. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Phillip Vannini is Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Lucy Budd is Lecturer in Transport Studies in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
Christian Fisker is a doctoral student in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University.
Paola Jiron is a Chilean academic from the Institute of Housing, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, the University of Chile, where she coordinates the Masters Programme on Residential Habitat.
Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.
