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Thrift (2004)

Using de Certeau's Walking in the City, Thrfit applies theories of everydayness and navigation to autmobile transport. He thoerises that everyday life works through processes of practicing on the territory of others. The autombile (car) is a mundane technology, an extension of a person's own ability, to do so.

Jensen (2010)

Observes the patterns and interactions of people at Nyortv intersection in Denmark. Foggman's definitions of mobile interactions are employed to explain different phenomena and patterns. It is a series of interactions of mobileindividuals with the city, structures and other's paths. "random interaction found in the presence of normative codes of mobile action regulation."

Middleton (2010)

The act of walking in urban settings activates senory and sensual dimensions not conciously realises. It is the best way to fully understand and feel a city. There are many mundane technologies, materials and embodiments which are active in the experience of urban walking not considered - shoes, navigation.

Ingold (2004)

Describes the evolution of walking by man. It was once a poor man's burden to walk everywhere, but it has evolved into a process of interacting with the environment and of everdayness in all walks of life. Be it urban mobility, appreciating landscapes and natural world, or the exercise of traveling.

Urry (2004)

Car culture and the automization of mobility has changed mobility ideas around transport. The driving of cars has opened up new possiblities of urban landscapes. It has reshaped cities, unbundling territories. Cars have increased individual agency in taking opportunities and addressing constraints. Moreover, they have become mundane objects of everyday. It is now a necessity of individual mobility -- however, car culture is limited and there will be a shift towards 'post-car' society as resources dwindle.

Cresswell (2010)

Advocate for the turn of mobility and more research to be done in the field of mobility in geography. There is more meaning behind mobility than the phsyical transport. There are scales to consider from walking down the street to global flows of capital. There is interconnections of things moving. Also, as commodities and services mobilise, there is less need for the individual to, increasing a sedentary lifestyle. There are a variety of differentiated politics of mobility -- luxury travel vs refugee fleeings. Transport geography and mobility geogprahy are different.

Goffman (1967)

Mobile sensmaking, temporary congregation, negotiation in motion

Spinney (2009)

Cycling in the city creates conversation about reforming indiviudal mobility. Interactions with the city that are more pronounced than autmobile and intimate than mundane walking. Meaning comes in threefold 1) what cycling means on the individual level 2) mobility is a form of experiencing place not like driving or flying 3) active and the use of video is important in research.

de Certeau

Walking is rejection of urban structures and insititutions. Consumers are active agents in capitalist consumption and urban everydayness. Everyday comes about by the active trespassing of industry and territory. Pedestrians avoid production of space and constantly disrupt the plans of the city.