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on June 30, 2025

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Published on July 7, 2025– Updated on July 7, 2025

Release of the book Geographical Places in Transportation by ISTE-Wiley

Geographical Pllaces In Transportation
Geographical Pllaces In Transportation

In the entanglement of practices, protagonists, techniques and infrastructures that enable mobility, transportation places play a crucial role. While transportation is often approached through the prism of networks, Geographical Places in Transportation invites us to shift our focus toward the places that link transportation and facilitate the movements of people, objects and materials. Through the myriad activities that unfold there, transportation places play an active role in the interdependencies that shape our daily lives. This book looks at transportation production and experience sites as places–processes, where a considerable proportion of society’s challenges and the habitability of territories are at stake: ecological transition; social inequalities; roles of minorities and living beings; access to employment and other resources; role of atmospheres and ambiances; commercial strategies and security concerns; expansion of digital capitalism; and relations with both the near and the distant.

This book is the translation of Transports et leurs lieux, published in 2024 by ISTE (see here).


Table of Contents :

Introduction (Jean-Baptiste Frétigny)

1. Infrastructure Networks and Major Transportation Places in the World: A Geohistorical Perspective (Anne Bretagnolle et Christophe Mimeur)

2. Gateways or Globalization Taking Place(s): Interdependencies in Question (Nadine Cattan et Jean-Baptiste Frétigny)

3. Shifting Economic Models of Transportation Places (Juliette Maulat et Mathilde Pedro)

4. Logistics Places: An Urban Geography of Post-Industrial Blue-Collar Workers (Nicolas Raimbault)

5. Public Space and Transportation: Friend or Foe? (Antoine Fleury et Jean-Baptiste Frétigny)

6. The Revival of Active Modes in Global North Cities (Jean-Paul Hubert, Kaduna-Eve Demailly, Clément Dusong)

7. Sensory Urban Mobilities: Experiences and Uses of Ambiances (Damien Masson)

8. Paratransit Places: Spaces of In-Betweenness in Cities of the Global South (Solène Baffi)

9. From Rapprochement to Separation: Transportation Places and Mobile Segregation (Jean-Baptiste Frétigny)

10. Heritage Development of Transportation Places (Pierre-Louis Ballot)

More information here

The introduction and the various chapters of the book will be made available on HAL starting from this link.