2024 T2M Annual Conference | Mobilities and Infrastructures: Transitions and Transformations

Session

Balancing Efficiency, Livability and Sustainability in Urban Mobility

PS 16

25 Sept 2024, 11:30

Leipzig, Germany

Conveners

Balancing Efficiency, Livability and Sustainability in Urban Mobility

• Govind Gopakumar (Concordia University)

3. Keeping a Track: Women’s Location Sharing and Mobility in New Delhi

Smriti Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi)

25/09/2024, 11:30

Paper

While there are attempts to claim the public space, modern Indian cities continue to be hostile for women. There are myriad limitations imposed on their access to public space, say in the form of active harassment or lack of sanitary toilets (to name a few). Fear and insecurities persist and their ‘right to loiter’ (Phadke 2007) is severely inhibited and discouraged by patriarchal norms, urban...

15. The Coloniality of Infrastructures: Understanding the Green Turn of Tbilisi's Public Transport Reform

Lela Rekhviashvili (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)

25/09/2024, 11:45

Paper

In 2018, the city hall of Tbilisi declared that it was working on a sustainable urban mobility plan and reorienting urban mobility policies towards pedestrians and public transport (PT) users. Over the past six years, the city hall has indeed implemented a number of significant changes. It has pursued two pilot projects for the redesign of road infrastructure, widened pedestrian and public...

30. No way out? The challenge of diverging interests and trajectories in urban mobility transformations: The example of Leipzig’s public transport infrastructure 1989-2001 and its twofold transformation.

Laura Höss

25/09/2024, 12:00

Paper

Often, ideas, needs and objectives regarding mobility infrastructures and their development diverge between users and planners or politicians. Under what conditions do transformations of mobility systems and transport infrastructure can be carried out, especially if there is a sharp polarization to be found between different stakeholders and how do overarching tendencies of political,...

99. Urban conflict on the Chandless Estate; the impact of infrastructure development in postwar twentieth century Gateshead

Adam Dixon (Northumbria University)

25/09/2024, 12:15

Paper

Historians have focused on the development of road and railway transport infrastructure after Second World War in Newcastle upon Tyne. Names such as T. Dan Smith, Wilfred Burns and Derek Bradshaw have become forever associated with the disastrous plans to make Newcastle into the ‘Brasilia of the North’ by proposing vast urban motorway schemes which would have sliced and diced the urban core of...