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Based on the cultural perspective of public problems approach (Gusfield, 2014), we explore processes of constructing of urban mobility policies in Bogotá and Belo Horizonte since 1990. Here we understand mobility as both social phenomenon and object of public action through content analysis of public policy instruments, both territorial and sectoral, we identified transformations in the category of mobility as well as the construction of new forms of urban identities where movement plays a central role citizenry. For the period studied, we find that transformations in planning culture, at the local level, gave greater importance to the category of mobility in the two cities. We also identified a growing interest in new urban agents such as pedestrians and cyclists, among others, expressed in the use of four discursive mechanisms used to describe, regulate, control, and construct these mobile identities: classification, omission, stigmatization, and metonymy.
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