Daily mobility patterns of coworkers in non-metropolitan areas, a French case study

Benoît Feildel (1)

1 ESO - Espaces et Sociétés

The recent surge in coworking spaces outside urban centres calls us to question the assumed positive externalities of these places and especially their contribution to the transition towards more virtuous mobility practices. Daily mobility in low-density areas, heavily dependent on cars, is in fact a major issue in the ecological and social transition. The interest generated by coworking spaces outside of metropolitan areas, especially for public authorities, therefore entails more thorough documentation concerning their effects on mobility. By using both GPS tracking and indepth interviews, we have been able to develop a typology of the daily mobility patterns of coworkers on the margin of metropolitan areas and therefore demonstrate the importance of rationales that integrate the territorial dimension and the embedding of social relations on the structuring of mobility.

Keywords: Mobility; coworking; metropolitan area; peri-urban; rural; GPS

Domains: Geography; Architecture, space management

Benoît Feildel. Daily mobility patterns of coworkers in non-metropolitan areas, a French case study. Edward Elgar Publishing. The Coworking (R)evolution : Working and Living in New Territories, pp.174-190, 2024, 9781802209181. ⟨halshs-04467417⟩