VIRTUAL Barcelona Livable Cities

Abstract

The main objective of the present paper is analyzing the connection between fashion and urban mobility; although these concepts are not usually interlinked in academic researches, it intends to formulate how the concept fashion and its social appliance can affect transportation. Fashion should not be only seen as a personal experience linked with luxury, but as an item and action which impacts the way people are perceived and interacts. The analysis of this phenomenon in Colombia is marked by social structures and breaches, this paper prompts a change in the mindset to adopt fashion as a collective, and as a vital part of the civic culture, without leaving behind its nature as a way of personal expression and encouraging identity and aspirational. Additionally, the relationship between quality of life and urban transportation is addressed through fashion, contemplating security, comfortability and adaptability, not only through clothing but as how the design and appearance things and commodities in public transportation impacts how citizens behave. This investigation as an analogical work which examines how clothing can be influenced by society but also influence its behavior, it takes example from different cities where fashion is cultural, aiming to extrapolate successful models and methods and see their appliance in Bogotá, Colombia. Based on empirical sources and analogies, this writing seeks to expand the limited bibliography and research on the topic.