Urban motorways inducing mobility and immobility

From a perspective that articulates mobility justice with the spatial and social impacts of urban motorways, this chapter focuses on how infrastructure can induce ambivalent dynamics of mobility and immobility within a metropolitan area, in this case Santiago de Chile. While high-income areas enjoy better accessibility at a metropolitan scale, in low-income areas the infrastructure may result in reducing access to the city and even the ability of residents to move within their neighbourhood. Infrastructure is here approached as a processual and relational object that needs to be analysed through qualitative, situated and multi-scalar approaches that focus on local mobility practices in space and time, to avoid generalisations and to move towards a better understanding of socio-spatial segregation dynamics that in a neoliberal context can be reinforced by infrastructure.