 | Vincent Kaufmann studied sociology at the University of Geneva, followed by a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1988. Since then he has been an invited scholar at the University of Lancaster (2001) and at the Ecole des Ponts, Paris (2001 – 2002); and associate professor at the University of Cergy-Pontaise (2002-2003). He is now associate professor at the EPFL, where he directs the laboratory LASUR. His recent research has focused essentially on urban life (multi-residency, the temporal and spatial arrangements of programs of activity); the politics or urban planning and transport; as well as the notion of mobility and its importance in terms of setting social structures.
| |  | | Conditions for travel have changed and are still changing the world — a world experiencing what John Urry, among others, calls the ‘mobility turn’. Since World War II we have been moving faster and going further — a fact that has profoundly changed our way of experiencing both the world and ourselves. |
 | | The book aims to rethink sociological perspectives on urban phenomena through a dynamic exploration of the links beetween infrastructural and technological aspects of urban order, power relations and everyday life experiences. |
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