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Daily Mobility and Urban Sprawl

Mobile Ethnography in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (MRB)

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After the consolidation of urban expansion, with the consequent processes of metropolisation and suburbanisation, today we have to reread the right to the city described almost half a century ago by Lefebvre (1978) as a right to accessibility and mobility. Late capitalism has used technological innovations in transport as a way to compress space-time coordinates, effectively “shortening distances”.

This text is an approach to the issues in the research project entitled Mobility and Daily Life in Catalonia: the Ethno-Geography of Metropolitan Space and Time, financed by the Spanish Government’s General Directorate of Research, with project code CSO2012-35425.

Joan J. Pujadas is Distinguished Professor of Social Anthropology (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain).

Gaspar Maza is Lecturer in Social Anthropology (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain).

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Pujadas, J.J., Maza, G. (2018). Daily Mobility and Urban Sprawl. In: Ferro, L., Smagacz-Poziemska, M., Gómez, M., Kurtenbach, S., Pereira, P., Villalón, J. (eds) Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18462-9_4

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