Urban Air Mobility. Un nuovo campo di ricerca sociologica

While Urban Air Mobility (UAM) may initially seem like a futuristic concept, it is rapidly gaining interest from a variety of stakeholders, including academics, industry professionals, and policymakers. It is an air transport system for passengers (but not only) specific to urban contexts at very low altitude and integrated with traditional land mobility systems, using dedicated infrastructures for take-off and landing. This contribution focuses on the emerging form of vertical take-off urban mobility, in which the transport of people within and between cities occurs through new types of aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically. The article aims to provide a sociological perspective on urban air mobility, exploring the potential for a sociology of urban skies.