Sustainable urban futures from transportation and planning to networked urban mobilities

Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2020.102310

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“…As such, automobility is a principle almost written into the urban fabric. It is the modern promise of individual freedom, development, success, and wealth that makes automobility so strong in urban planning and design (Freudendal-Pedersen 2020. It is the mobility potential, the 'motility' (Kaufmann 2002), stored and represented in this modern iron cage called automobile that gave people the chance to connect a mode of transport with their individual dreams and hopes for a good mobile life.…”

Section: Mobile Risk Society Acceleration and Fearmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society

Freudendal-Pedersen

Kesselring

2020

Mobilities

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Since the World Health Organization's (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, the virus has invaded lives around the globe. The ongoing health, social and economic crisis that followed forced urban life, business, culture, community etc. into idle mode for weeks resulting from mandated immobility. What was once taken for granted as the essence of urban experience such as cultural activities, meeting friends, relatives and colleagues in public space or in professional encounters, disappeared overnight. Free movement became significantly restricted all over the world. It seemed that immobility, social and physical distancing, and isolation were the only antidote to the fast-moving virus. For many people, working from home while also schooling their children and providing social care at a distance, peak activity at maximum physical immobility became the "new normal." A culture emerged where rules and norms of mobilities previously taken for granted were re-negotiated and re-defined. Before the crisis and despite the negative ecological side effects, mobility has been positively connotated as a signifier for progress and success. Under the Corona regime mobility turned into a life-threatening risk. The theory of reflexive modernization, risk society and the mobilities paradigm are used to discuss these contemporary shifts and transformations.

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Section: Mobile Risk Society Acceleration and Fearmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Maybe the post-fossil and sustainable city might have gotten a push from an unexpected and unforeseeable side. In many ways COVID-19 plays into a tactical urbanism at work (Freudendal-Pedersen 2020;Lydon, Garcia, and Duany 2015) where urban space beyond COVID-19 gets reclaimed and sometimes even reconquered.…”

Section: Mobilities-futures-mobility Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society

Freudendal-Pedersen

Kesselring

2020

Mobilities

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“…However, in 2019, the municipal plan of Copenhagen set out a new minimum with one-quarter of trips by bicycle, one-quarter of trips on public transportation, one-quarter of trips by pedestrians, and a maximum of one-quarter of trips by car [59]. Even if Copenhagen has quite a way to go to reach this goal, it nevertheless indicates a will to work towards new and more innovative distribution of urban mobilities, which allows for more approaches in planning without the car being center stage [10].…”

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“…This can be framed under the umbrella of tactical urbanism [66], in which experimentations in urban spaces are used to stimulate new urban cultures arranged and driven by multiple actors and users. In central Copenhagen this has already been used when redeveloping neighborhood streets with more emphasis on urban dwelling, cycling, walking, and public transportation [10]. Tactical urbanism exemplifies how user-driven micro-spatial strategies are relatively low-cost and straightforward to implement, such as the substitution of existing private parking places with ride-sharing schemes for a temporary period.…”

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“…Mobility culture is embedded in socio-technological environments and highly influenced by planning and the quality and structures of built environments. The making of sustainable cities and communities (SDG goal 11) is based on combining the technocratic planning ideal with all the things mobilities in cities also are, apart from speed, efficiency, and accessibility [10]. If we are to take the sustainable development goal seriously, efficiency alone will not do the job.…”

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Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen

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The issue of creating more sustainable mobility systems has been revisited during the past 50 years. So far, we are still waiting for an innovative systemic change that is not simply an iteration of existing technologies. This standstill is to a large degree due to the hegemonic mobility paradigm, working under a “predict and provide”-driven approach, with little attention being paid to environmental and social externalities. This paper calls for a new understanding of mobility transition interlinked with the cultural values of modern societies, deeply rooted in the mobile risk society. To create sustainable mobility practices we need robust, socially coherent, and inclusive mobility systems that are more than just transportation systems and connections. The empirical starting point is a visionary workshop on designing “Sustainable Innovative Mobility Solutions” in three urban areas in Copenhagen. The workshop created a cross-disciplinary space for actors to meet across dominant silos and acknowledge the need for intervention framings to focus on innovation as a matter of interlinking sustainable mobilities practices within everyday living in a mobile risk society.

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Promoting Carpooling Through Nudges: The Case of the University Hildesheim

Werkmeister

Schoormann

Knackstedt

2021

Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation

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Sustainable urban futures from transportation and planning to networked urban mobilities

Cited by 29 publications

References 25 publications

What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society

What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society

Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen

Promoting Carpooling Through Nudges: The Case of the University Hildesheim

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