Vertical Flight and Urban Mobilities: the Promise and Reality of Helicopter TravelFootnote1

1. This article is based on the research project ‘Mobility, Urban Landscape and Social Exclusion: the Rise of Urban Air Travel in São Paulo’. This project was generously funded by an Economic and Social Research Council grant (ESRC Award No RES‐000‐22‐0732). The research involved collection of secondary data, including media reports and publicity material, over 50 interviews with stakeholders and a survey of the population of relevant districts of São Paulo city. The author would like to thank the ESRC for making this research possible.

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