This course introduces students to the study of current
mobilities of everything (people, ideas, goods, capital, and
images), the social, cultural and political aspects of the
infrastructure and workings of mobility places and systems,
and the historical formation of the mobility as an
insaparable feature of civilization, modernity and
globalization. Topics to be covered include Mobilities
Theory; cities as interfaces and spaces of travel and
tourism; inequalities across (im)mobilities; historical
development of transportation systems; global structures
of mobilities; airports, railways, and container ports;
mutual constitution of transportation, travel and tourism;
social, cultural and economic impacts of transportation
systems and hubs over place-making and social relations.
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