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Transition experiments, a boost to 2050
Today's environmental problems make a change in society's mobility behaviour urgently necessary in order to achieve the decarbonisation targets set in the Paris Agreement for 2050. Added to this are concerns about road safety, public health, the economy and social justice and inclusion. The recent pandemic has brought home to most sceptics the environmental impact of the car, the need to redistribute public space in favour of more sustainable modes of transport, and the importance of urban living space in cities, reinforcing the defence of this public concern. In this sense, many cities have demonstrated their resilience and adaptability to new needs by implementing provisional measures to redistribute public space (e.g., creating bike lanes, pedestrian zones or widening pavements and squares) that drive definitive projects for these areas, which in turn represent a paradigm shift that accelerates the changes advocated for 2050. Many of these pop-up measures fit into the Transition Experiments methodology, advocated here as a counter-position (or at least a complement) to traditional planning methods and traditional public engagement through citizen participation. Indeed, we live in a time of transition between unsustainable habits that are strongly rooted in today's society and the emergence of more sustainable lifestyles. In this paper, we address the inevitable paradigm shift to promote sustainable urban mobility, the obstacles that prevent this transition in the short term, and the tools at our disposal to accelerate this change. This approach is tested in a real-world setting, the urban laboratory of the city of Braga, Portugal. We argue that conducting changeover experiments is a valuable tool to accelerate the shift of attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable urban mobility, as it gives society the opportunity to experience physical changes before the final transformation. The three case studies aim to show that using a multi-level perspective of change through the interaction of transition ...
Transition experiments, a boost to 2050
Today's environmental problems make a change in society's mobility behaviour urgently necessary in order to achieve the decarbonisation targets set in the Paris Agreement for 2050. Added to this are concerns about road safety, public health, the economy and social justice and inclusion. The recent pandemic has brought home to most sceptics the environmental impact of the car, the need to redistribute public space in favour of more sustainable modes of transport, and the importance of urban living space in cities, reinforcing the defence of this public concern. In this sense, many cities have demonstrated their resilience and adaptability to new needs by implementing provisional measures to redistribute public space (e.g., creating bike lanes, pedestrian zones or widening pavements and squares) that drive definitive projects for these areas, which in turn represent a paradigm shift that accelerates the changes advocated for 2050. Many of these pop-up measures fit into the Transition Experiments methodology, advocated here as a counter-position (or at least a complement) to traditional planning methods and traditional public engagement through citizen participation. Indeed, we live in a time of transition between unsustainable habits that are strongly rooted in today's society and the emergence of more sustainable lifestyles. In this paper, we address the inevitable paradigm shift to promote sustainable urban mobility, the obstacles that prevent this transition in the short term, and the tools at our disposal to accelerate this change. This approach is tested in a real-world setting, the urban laboratory of the city of Braga, Portugal. We argue that conducting changeover experiments is a valuable tool to accelerate the shift of attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable urban mobility, as it gives society the opportunity to experience physical changes before the final transformation. The three case studies aim to show that using a multi-level perspective of change through the interaction of transition ...
Transition experiments, a boost to 2050
Corais, T. Filipa (author) / Araújo, Emília (author) / Silva, Márcia (author) / Bandeira, Miguel Sopas de Melo (author) / Juan, Marta Labastida (author) / Silva, Cecília (author)
2023-01-01
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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