Jeruseviciute, Greta (2022) An Exploratory Research on Urban Street Experiments and Transitions in Urban Mobility. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Since the advent of the automobile, urban streets have been planned to primarily serve the interests of motorized vehicles, resulting in streets for cars rather than people. However, global events like climate change and rapid urbanization are increasingly putting pressure on urban streets to accommodate more functions of public space. Furthermore, bringing streets ‘back to the people’ is important in achieving sustainable mobility systems. Consequently, streets experiments have increasingly been proliferating amongst city officials and urban communities as an approach to temporarily reformulate the balance of city streets. Research has shown these interventions to boast positive short-term impacts yet their long-term impacts that go beyond their immediate spatial and temporal boundaries has been unresearched. Through three case studies in North America, this qualitative thesis explored how Parklets, Open Streets, and Pavements to Plazas can encourage transitions in urban mobility. Interview and document analysis data revealed that the urban context can create favourable conditions for experiments to diffuse their innovations into wider society. Particularly, moments of crises, demographic changes and Climate Change all created destabilising pressures on the regime which offered windows of opportunity for street experiments to diffuse their innovations. Deepening, broadening, scaling up, replication and translation have also been identified as mechanisms through which experiments encourage transitions, with concrete practices differing based on experiment goals and aim.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Lamker, C.W. |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2022 14:51 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2022 14:51 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3992 |
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