{"title":"Impacts of (Autonomous) Ride-Hailing Services for Children's Independent Mobility: A Review","authors":"Johanna Reinhardt, Ash Alam, Crystal Legacy","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper advances understandings of how (autonomous) ride-hailing services, widely described as app-based, prearranged, and on-demand transportation, affect children's independent mobility (CIM). Examining CIM is crucial, as ride-hailing services have recently expanded to include unaccompanied minors (aged 13–17) in several countries worldwide, and the first driverless service for children is currently being tested in the United States. While these services offer perceived benefits, such as increased independence for children and reduced parental time and supervision, they also raise practical concerns. These include child safety, potential reductions in active lifestyles, and implications for children's agency. Together, these issues reveal a significant knowledge gap in CIM literature regarding the changing mobility conditions introduced by (autonomous) ride-hailing. We respond to this gap by conducting a review of scholarly papers published in English between 2017 and 2024. Our analysis of the studies examining the introduction of (autonomous) ride-hailing services and their impact on children's mobilities highlights the necessity for novel perspectives on CIM in contemporary cities. The review offers insights into societal perceptions of emerging transport technologies and identifies barriers to young people's agency in mobility decision-making. The findings advance critical understandings of childhood within the context of platform-enabled, automated, and everyday automobilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145996654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the Nation, Building the Empire: The Development of Popular Maps and Atlases in Post-Unification Italy (Ca. 1860–1915)","authors":"Matteo Proto","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70058","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the development of Italian popular and educational cartography following the national unification of 1861. While Italy had a long-standing cartographic tradition dating back to the Renaissance, this tradition had rapidly declined in the late modern age due to political fragmentation. The late 19th century saw a revival of map production, particularly through figures like Guido Cora and Giovanni De Agostini, who aimed to establish a national cartographic industry and make Italy's map production independent from foreign, especially German, publishing houses. Beyond the dissemination of geographical knowledge for scientific and educational purposes, the revival of cartography proved crucial in fostering the consolidation of the nation-state and constructing an imperial imagination that supported the establishment of a colonial domain.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145996635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel McArdle, Dean Phelan, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Madeline Gan, Brian Caulfield
{"title":"The Importance of Place in Advancing Sustainable Mobility Thinking and Practice","authors":"Rachel McArdle, Dean Phelan, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Madeline Gan, Brian Caulfield","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70057","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How, why and where people move, and the larger processes that impact these decisions, are key concerns within the discipline of geography. Yet even though substantial research on mobility has been undertaken, particularly in recent years through the ‘mobilities turn’, limited attention has been paid in geography or mobility studies to mobility's place-based aspects. We argue that including the concept of place is critical to advance sustainable mobility. Unlocking more sustainable forms of mobility is a necessary part of climate action, progressing climate goals, and enhancing liveability and human wellbeing. To date, many sustainable mobility policies have mostly been top-down, responding to international or national imperatives and focussed on critical infrastructure development and active travel. Very often they are presented as ‘one size fits all’ solutions that fail to account for local, place-based and social differences impacting on uptake and social acceptability. We argue that mobility needs to be better understood through the lens of the lived experience as an embodied, differentiated and political process. Further, a place-based approach to sustainable mobility is required to achieve meaningful behavioural change and more explicit attention needs to be focussed on the intersection of place and mobility. For transformative policy shifts at national and other scales to have real-world impact, they must be informed by the local context. The research reviewed here supports our argument that for sustainable mobility to succeed, more attention needs to be paid to place, and the everyday aspects of movement. A place-based approach to sustainable mobility should be locally grounded, place specific, and take into account place characteristics and capabilities. We argue that for sustainable mobility policies to enable impactful change, place must be central to thinking, planning and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interrogating Multiscalar Labour Regimes: Extending Debates on Fragmentation and Dynamism","authors":"Rohini Anant","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70060","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Labour regime analysis examines the relational dynamics of regulation and agency shaping the politics of work in the arenas of production, circulation, social reproduction and representation. Recent scholarship on multiscalar labour regimes has noted their dynamism (i.e., they change over time) and fragmentation (i.e., distinctive experiences of the same work between different workforces), and begun exploring how the regime's regulation/agency dynamics are shaped by these processes. This article builds on these debates to present fragmentation and dynamism as intertwined organising logics of the multiscalar labour regime. It does so by: (i) reframing ideas of fragmentation in the context of labour market segmentation; (ii) extending existing understandings of dynamism to include the multiple, intersecting modalities of temporal relations shaping a labour regime, from everyday time at the workplace through to longer cycles of political and infrastructural time; (iii) demonstrating the differentiated ways in which temporal relations play out in this expanded view of fragmented labour regimes; and (iv) highlighting the concomitant expanded conceptualisation of the spaces of social reproduction and circulation of labour this approach demands. Derived from ongoing work on critical mineral labour regimes, this enhanced perspective is more broadly instructive for the study of new labour regimes in formation or labour regimes in transition, thus broadening the scope of existing studies which tend to focus on already established labour regimes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemporary Land Transitions in the United States: Critical Questions of Concentration and (Re)Distribution","authors":"Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Madeleine Fairbairn","doi":"10.1111/gec3.70056","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gec3.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Agricultural land in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition. Seventy percent of land is expected to change hands in the next 20 years, with many existing farmers ready to retire and lacking heirs interested in agriculture. This moment is not lost on financial institutions, which are buying up land in search of new sources of rentier profit, further fueling land concentration. At the same time, beginning farmers are struggling to access land and movements for racial justice have contributed to a growing recognition of ongoing inequities in distribution. These trends have converged to result in an increasing number of land access initiatives, as well as a new wave of scholarship on land access, land justice, and land reform in the US context. We critically assess this pivotal moment in agricultural land access and redistribution in the United States, exploring the scholarship which looks at transitions through a reformist policy lens as well as research and advocacy work that argues for a more radical rethinking of political economic structures surrounding land.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"19 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gec3.70056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145824939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}