Mobility and the Making of the Creative City: Neoliberal Urban Restructuring and its Impacts on Mobility, Space and Social (In)Justice

新自由主义的“创意城市”话语一直是推动地球仪城市公共政策干预和城市重组的最重要的城市话语之一。然而，在创意城市的研究中，一方面是日常流动性实践的概念，另一方面是城市中流动性的（再）生产及其产生的政治，在很大程度上被忽视了，即使流动性及其空间的（重塑）似乎在创造创意城市中发挥了重要作用。因此，这个项目，这将是海德堡大学的基础，正在调查是否以及如何新自由主义的“创意城市”战略影响当地流动性制度的生产和政治，以及这意味着对日益增长的社会不平等的关注。使用令人惊讶的经验的例子，但在很大程度上无法解释的有轨电车开发项目在美国各地的几十个城市重新出现，这项研究渴望作出实质性的理论和经验的贡献，城市，交通和流动性的地理。

The neoliberal 'creative city' discourse has been one of the most significant urban discourses driving public policy interventions and urban restructuring in cities across the globe. However, the notion of everyday mobility practices, on the one hand, and the (re)production of mobility in cities and the politics this produces, on the other hand, have been largely overlooked in research on the creative city, even as (the reshaping of) mobility and its spaces appear to play significant roles in the making of the creative city. Thus, this project, which will be the basis for Habilitation at Heidelberg University, is investigating whether and how neoliberal 'creative city' strategies impact the production and politics of local mobility regimes, and what this means for concerns over ever-increasing social inequality. Using the empirical example of the surprising, and as of yet largely unexplained re-emergence of streetcar development projects in dozens of cities throughout the United States, this research aspires to make substantive theoretical and empirical contributions to urban, transport, and mobilities geographies.