Publication
Title
Street Experiments and COVID-19: Challenges, Responses and Systemic Change
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Abstract
Cities have introduced street experiments, among others, in order to cope with the urgent health challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. They are primarily intended to allow people to move safely in urban spaces according to physical distancing requirements. It has been suggested that street experiments have the potential to not only respond to pressing needs, but to also trigger systemic change in mobility. This paper explores urban case studies and demonstrates how pandemic-induced street experiments provide a solution to specific challenges to mobility and public space. There are, however, issues concerning equity and citizen participation. Finally, we find that pandemic-induced street experiments have a higher acceptance among the public and authorities, a more permanent character and a greater embeddedness in long-term planning agendas. The paper concludes that the pandemic stimulated the introduction of street experiments and fostered their potential to enable systemic change in urban mobility.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie / Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap; Royal Dutch Geographical Society. - Amsterdam, 1948, currens
Publication
Amsterdam : Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap , 2023
ISSN
0040-747X [print]
1467-9663 [online]
DOI
10.1111/TESG.12542
Volume/pages
114 :1 (2023) , p. 43-57
ISI
000899773200001
Pubmed ID
36718175
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Web of Science
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Creation 02.04.2024
Last edited 03.04.2024
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