Sociology

How Does Motorization Isolate Urban Travelers from Community life?

Though much research on the social psychological dimensions of urban transportation remains to be done, evidence suggests that the way urban space is usually partitioned today may have resulted in the social isolation of the workplace from community life, the "invisibility" of the elderly and the young, and the erosion of social cohesion in neighborhoods. Manville notes that "while transit can also allow for encounters between people of different classes, this doesn't happen if the transit lines are segregated socio-economically." ...  read more »