Exploring the Juggling of Responsibilities with Space-Time Accessibility Analysis

Schwanen, Tim; Jong, Tom de

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“…Rather it is about which groups' preferences qualitatively shape the wider local context, in terms of facilities and services, as well as being behind the ways in which the built environment is changing (Butler and Robson 2001;Butler 2003;Karsten 2003Karsten , 2007Savage et al 2005). New groups moving into an area, making different sorts of demands on amenities can bring about a slow but important transformation in the local context, changing its physical organisation and its cultural ambience (Schwanen and De Jong 2008). Second, that those moving into an area might exhibit a type of belonging that mirrors, but is not the same as, that exhibited by those who grow up and live locally.…”

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Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester

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Recent years have seen an expansion in the work on the attitudes, beliefs and preferences of those middle class groups that that have accompanied the return of capital to many North American and Western European city centres and their surrounding urban suburbs. Yet despite this, we argue that there is little research linking gentrification to wider processes of social transformation, particularly debates over housing market decision-making, the balancing of work and life, and the gender division of labour within the household. It is to examining the interaction of these aspects of everyday life in a gentrifying area that this paper turns, using the example of Chorlton, a southern urban suburb of Manchester.2

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“…The authors caught the embodied experiences of travel, how time and space limit the women's choice of modes of transport but also release time to read, prepare, rest and readjust between different roles as mother, wife and professional. Schwanen and de Jong (2008) found how restricted opening hours at childcare centres, road congestion, and embodied moral notions of motherhood create restrictions for a working mother. In a study on mobility among low income, single mothers in San Francisco, McQuoid and Dijst (2012) explored how low wage jobs, sources of education, and various time-space restrictions such as locations of work and housing, gave rise to different emotions and travel behaviours which in turn had an impact on well-being and quality of life.…”

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“…Since the origin of time-geography in the 1960s and 1970s it has been further developed and applied in transport research from several perspectives, e.g. time-space-fixity and accessibility Neutens et al, 2012), gender differences in travel patterns (Kwan, 2000;Schwanen and de Jong, 2008), residential location (Ellder, 2014), and use of ICTs (Thulin and Vilhelmson, 2008). Many studies of time-space use have revealed how people in the work force deal with the balance between work, leisure and family.…”

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Everyday Mobility and Travel Activities during the first years of Retirement

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2016

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Mobility is central to living an independent life, to participating in society, and to maintaining well-being in later life. The point of departure in this thesis is that retirement implies changes in time-space use and altered routines, which influence demands and preconditions for mobility in numeorous ways. The aim of this thesis is to explore mobility strategies and changes in mobility upon retirement and how mobility develops during the first years of retirement. A further aim is to provide knowledge of the extent to which newly retired people maintain a desired mobility based on their needs and preconditions. The thesis is empirically based on travel diaries kept by newly retired people, and qualitative interviews with the same persons, and follow-up interviews three and a half years later. The results show that mobility is a way of forming a structure in the new everyday life as retirees by getting out of the house, either just for a walk or to do errands. Many patterns of everyday life remain the same upon retirement, but the informants also merge new responsibilities and seek new social arenas and activities. As a result, the importance of the car have not changed, but it is used for other reasons than before. After leaving paid work, new space-time constraints are created which influences demands for mobility. The study further shows that "third places" become important, especially among those who live alone, as they give an opportunity to being part of a social context and a reason for getting out of the house. The follow-up interviews revealed that declined health changed the preconditions for mobility. Daily walks had to be made shorter, and the car had to be used for most errands to where they previously could walk or cycle. However, mobility can also be maintained despite a serious illness and a long period of rehabilitation.

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“…In particular, a large number of researchers have shown that individual accessibility is shaped by inter alia an individual's mandatory activity schedule, trip chaining behaviour and transport mode availability (see e.g. Weber and Kwan, 2002;Kim and Kwan, 2003;Kwan and Weber, 2008;Schwanen and De Jong, 2008;Neutens et al, 2010c, b;Neutens et al, 2010d). …”

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The relationship between opening hours and accessibility of public service delivery

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Exploring the Juggling of Responsibilities with Space-Time Accessibility Analysis

Cited by 59 publications

References 66 publications

Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester

Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester

Everyday Mobility and Travel Activities during the first years of Retirement

The relationship between opening hours and accessibility of public service delivery

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