What is it about?
This article asks about the work of the living body involved in navigating urban life, and about what notions of ‘city’ emerge from such corporeal-material engagement with the urban world.
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Why is it important?
In much of urban theorization, space and practice remain immaterial and actors remain without living bodies. To help fill this void, in this paper I explore the movement of bodies in urbanising landscapes. In particular, I look at the bodily practice that unfolds at a ‘bus stop made by stopping buses’ in peri-urban Mexico City.
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This page is a summary of: Taking the bus in peri-urban Mexico City: Bodily perspectives on own and urban becoming, Environment and Planning D Society and Space, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0263775816647380.
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