Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

Pucci, Paola; Colleoni, Matteo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22578-4

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“…Namely, mobility linked to the geographic movement of people for work and leisure or due to the need for migration within or between countries, for instance. Besides, some authors have argued that transportation is not merely the instrumental or neural tool for getting from A to B (Vannini 2010), but also an element that shapes relationships and interactions between people (Dugundji et al 2011 andPucci andColleoni 2016), networks of time and space (Cresswell 2006, Grieco and McQuaid 2012and Pathak et al 2017) and provides meaningful different significances to experiences (Cresswell 2006).…”

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Infrastructures and society: from a literature review to a conceptual framework

Josa

Aguado

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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While economic and environmental aspects of civil engineering have attracted the greatest attention among contemporary academy, its social side has frequently been set aside. However, the social impact that infrastructures have is huge and its analysis and understanding are fundamental. At the same time, social aspects such as culture or human behaviour can have significant effects during the different stages of the lifecycle of infrastructures. Therefore, a better understanding of the connections between civil engineering and society can help to better adapt infrastructures to their contexts, as well as minimise their negative impacts; as a result, this understanding can bring about infrastructures that are more socially sustainable.The scarce studies that have assessed the connection between society and civil engineering have considered this relationship as unidirectional. The real scenario is not so simple. The analysis of this relationship needs to be interdisciplinary, and it is in this context that this paper addresses the analysis of infrastructures and of social sciences from a sociotechnical point of view. We draw on the interrelationships found to propose a conceptual framework with the main objective of providing both practitioners and academics with tools to carry out more sustainable and context-adapted decisions. We classify the fields of civil engineering and social sciences into several different subfields, namely six for infrastructures (transport, water, energy, environment, urban planning and buildings) and twelve for social sciences (culture and history, behaviour 2 and mind, communication and interaction, socioeconomics, juridical sciences, life and health, politics, social problems, social groups, ethics and philosophy, arts and education and innovation). Afterwards, we review the existing literature at the intersection between the various categories. We conclude proposing a framework that can support decisions and actions made at different levels and working areas. The framework includes guidelines for a more holistic consideration of the interaction between infrastructures and society in key activities whereby an improved understanding of the effect of this relationship is often required. The guidelines provide a description of different key areas and can be applied to a wide variety of actions ranging from the development of university curricula to the social impact assessment of projects. education, public policy and customer privacy. Conversely, the SLCA draws from the assessment methodology developed in the context of environmental sustainability. Other approaches account for social sustainability as an integrated part together with economic and environmental factors. One example is MIVES (Integrated Value Model for Sustainability Assessment), which is a multi-criteria decision-making tool that allows to consider in a holistic way the different dimensions of a problem (Aguado et al. 2012 and) by structuring the framework into different levels, weighting each of the aspects and aggregat...

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