Car use and alternative mobility solutions as a reflection of urban sprawl and marginalisation of rural areas

Dyba, Wojciech; Doszczeczko, Bartosz

doi:10.4324/9781003309659-6

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“…More detailed analyses revealed that city dwellers travel by car much less frequently than the inhabitants of suburbs. For example, 55% of urban residents of Poznań, one of the largest cities in Poland, cover less than 10,000 km by car, but this is true of only 43% of suburbanites (Dyba and Doszczeczko, 2022). Up to 35% of suburban residents declare that they spend more than 60 minutes in a car each day, compared to only 22% of city dwellers.…”

Section: Urban Sprawl and Car Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

From systemic to sustainability transitions: An emerging economy perspective on urban sprawl and the automobile revolution

Kołsut,

Kudłak

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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There is mounting evidence that the current model of economic development negatively affects many ecological processes and creates serious threats to the sustainability of economic processes and welfare. In response to those threats, policies have been introduced at supranational and national levels to alleviate the most burning environmental challenges and mitigate their consequences for humanity. At the same time, however, there is a growing understanding that economy–environment relations have to be analysed and approached from a geographical perspective, as this sheds more light on spatial differences and specificities, the unevenness of transition processes and their social consequences as well as the need to perform the transition towards sustainability in a spatially sensitive manner. This article seeks to reconstruct and analyse two processes – urban sprawl and the automobile revolution – that took place in the Polish urban regions during the systemic transformation period and to discuss their potential consequences for the transition to sustainability from a geographical perspective. We show that different places, due to their specificities and legacies, start sustainability transitions from different initial conditions that might affect the pace of this process as well as its environmental and social consequences.

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Section: Urban Sprawl and Car Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 99%