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While automobility has been given much attention in the mobilities literature (Beckmann 2001; Böhm et al. 2006; Featherstone 2004; Merriman 2009; Urry 2004), most work has focused on objects on the move. There has been little attention to not-moving, immobile, and fixed worlds, conceptualized by the more encompassing term ‘mooring’ (significant exceptions include Adey 2006; Hannam et al. 2006; Urry 2003; see also work on ‘stillness’ by, for example, Bissell and Fuller 2009). In terms of automobility, this is all the more surprising considering that individual vehicles are mobile only in relation to their immobility; they are parked for more than 90 per cent of their use time which also translates into vast amounts of needed space. Immobility is an integral part of mobility, as it is related to it dialectically (Urry 2003) and symbiotically (Adey 2006). In terms of automobility, this means a need for places like parking lots, parking garages, petrol stations, but also motorways and streetscapes without which automobility would not exist or would be very different.
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Tuvikene, T. (2014). Mooring in Socialist Automobility: Garage Areas. In: Burrell, K., Hörschelmann, K. (eds) Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137267290_6
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