Contributed by sociologists and other researchers from South America, the UK, and the US, the 10 essays in this volume explore the relationship between urban mobility and social equity in Latin America. They address the structural dimensions of accessibility and the role of mobility and transport in the opportunity to access urban services and activities; active travel and local accessibility and the intersection between sustainable forms of transport, equity, health, and well-being; and the accessibility of emerging mobilities, particularly the needs and demands of groups whose vulnerable conditions represent a challenge for social equity in mobility and transport policymaking. They discuss the role of transport in enabling opportunities that contribute to human development and well-being in Colombia, patterns of mobility behavior in the context of gender equity in Uruguay, care dynamics and family mobility patterns in Brazil from a gender perspective, and household employees' mobility in Colombia; the equity implications of women's travel patterns and sustainable transport in Chile, the relationship between transport, accessibility, and the well-being of female cyclists in Latin America, and whether ethnicity and other sociocultural characteristics influence the active commute of high school Hispanic students in the US; and children's geographies and needs related to mobility and their opportunity to access urban space in Puerto Rico, the effect of Brazilian psychiatric reform on the accessibility of individuals in psychiatric hospitals, and the accessibility of people with disabilities to urban transport systems in Brazil. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
