1158 | 441 | Places, visions, spaces and people in research on the transition to the x minute, smart city | Karin Winter; Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt; Christina Lindqvist
In research on sustainable mobility the overarching strategies of avoid/shift/improve are long established. It is however not until more recent that the avoid/shift approaches have been made (more or less) concrete, through the development of broader urban planning concepts such as the 15 minute city, superblocks, and smart cities – where a key aspect is to transition to a more “transport lean” type of society, avoiding unnecessary individual motorized mobility, and shifting to more sustainable transport modes. These concepts are in turn based on various discourses about places and visions that establish role-models for a (near) future where a transition of spaces and the mobility habits of people have been made. We present the results from a literature review of published research contributing to the knowledge about the concepts 15 minute city, superblocks, and smart cities within transport research. The aim of the research presented is to develop an understanding of what kind of societies, places, and visions such literature highlight as role models in urban planning with a focus on transport and mobility. We analyze the literature using a discourse theoretical approach inspired by Laclau and Mouffe (1985. _x000D_
Research questions include: which specific places (cities, or parts of cities) are mentioned in the literature? How is the transport and mobility systems of such places described? What concepts/measures/units are used to concretize the nature of the transport system? How is life in general in these societies constructed– e.g. who is assumed to make up the majority population, what are the typical lifestyles, the different cultures represented, and sociospatial orders found in the literature? We will also compare and contrast the results across the three strands of literature. The work is conducted during spring 2023, and we will present our findings in a publication during autumn 2023._x000D_
Karin Winter; Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt; Christina Lindqvist
Lund University, Malmö Unversity, K2 the Swedish Knowledge center for public transport
ID Abstract: 441