Critical Urban Infrastructure

Steele, Wendy; Legacy, Crystal

doi:10.1080/08111146.2017.1283751

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“…In justifying public transport projects, project advocates promote economic benefits over the alleged social benefits (Steele & Legacy, 2017). While the intended benefits (e.g.…”

Section: Social Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limitations of Technical Approaches to Transport Planning Practice in Two Cases: Social Issues as a Critical Component of Urban Projects

Mottee

Arts

Vanclay

et al. 2019

Planning Theory & Practice

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Technical transport models are commonly relied upon in planning practice for the development of urban rail infrastructure projects. By considering the assessment and management of social impacts in the planning and decisionmaking of two rail megaprojects (the North-South Metro line in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Parramatta Rail Link in Sydney, Australia), we found that technical approaches continued to overlook social impacts, and had an overemphasis on economic and engineering considerations. We conclude that good practice Social Impact Assessment (SIA) offers opportunities to better consider social issues as a critical component of transport projects.

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“…In justifying public transport projects, project advocates promote economic benefits over the alleged social benefits (Steele & Legacy, 2017). While the intended benefits (e.g.…”

Section: Social Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limitations of Technical Approaches to Transport Planning Practice in Two Cases: Social Issues as a Critical Component of Urban Projects

Mottee

Arts

Vanclay

et al. 2019

Planning Theory & Practice

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“…A number of special issues have appeared in scholarly journals, creating an abundant amount of literature on megaprojects, for example, the The Past and Present of Megaprojects Policy and Research (2017), and the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (2018). It is especially encouraging to see that megaprojects have taken a more prominent role in management and organization studies (Van Marrewijk, 2015) as well as economic geography (Grabher & Thiel, 2014;Rasagam, Engman, Gurcanlar, & Fernandes, 2014) and urban planning (Steele, 2017). Despite the impressive and important progresswith a number of achievements made related to better stories (more empirical examples, intriguing case studies, etc.)…”

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The past and Present of Megaprojects

Söderlund

Sankaran

Biesenthal

2017

Project Management Journal

105

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“…Transport policies determine several socio-spatial impacts that enhance or impede the public acceptance and therefore the political feasibility of certain options. These include a wide range of features, such as the amount and distribution of the costs and benefits generated by each measure [23,24]; the conflicts generated by a new transport policy, due to its externalities or to the disruptions in it generates [25,26]; or the perceptions associated with certain (often infrastructural) interventions, especially in terms of "need" and "prestige," as well as of their contribution to the "legacy" of the decision maker who promotes them [27,28]. These are just some of the social impacts generated by transport policies, and that the main evaluative techniques often struggle to consider [29].…”

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Socio-Spatial Concerns in Urban Mobility Planning: Insights from Competing Policies in Quito

2020

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Socio-spatial concerns are gaining increasing attention in the design of interventions for urban mobility. This is especially true in contexts traditionally characterized by structural inequality and high levels of poverty, in which transport can be a decisive contributor to development thanks to its contribution to a higher social inclusion. Amongst them, Latin America has emerged as a significant laboratory for urban and transport policy due not only to its socioeconomic conditions but also to the implementation of different mobility strategies based on the construction of traditional and innovative infrastructures such as subways and bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. These two transport systems can be complementary or alternative to each other: this depends not only on their transport capacity, their economic sustainability, and to their levels of public acceptability but also on social, political, and spatial features of the setting they serve. This paper intends to discuss the socio-spatial consequences that interventions based on different transport systems can generate, examining them in the city of Quito, Ecuador. The discussion is based on the implementation of the existing BRT network and of a subway line under construction. Reconstructing two contrasting transport policies developed in the city in the last 25 years, this paper proposes an overview of the socio-spatial concerns that influenced and were influenced by urban mobility planning in Quito. To do so, this paper reviews and compares the socio-spatial concerns related to BRT and subway corridors, considering their accessibility, the wider urban transformations they promote, their economic sustainability, and the overall public acceptability, estimating to what extent these have influenced the decision to implement a certain transport policy.

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Critical Urban Infrastructure

Cited by 51 publications

References 10 publications

Limitations of Technical Approaches to Transport Planning Practice in Two Cases: Social Issues as a Critical Component of Urban Projects

Limitations of Technical Approaches to Transport Planning Practice in Two Cases: Social Issues as a Critical Component of Urban Projects

The past and Present of Megaprojects

Socio-Spatial Concerns in Urban Mobility Planning: Insights from Competing Policies in Quito

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