Divergent infrastructure: Uncovering alternative pathways in urban velomobilities
| Autor: | Aryana Soliz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050210 logistics & transportation
Mobilities Inequality Restructuring media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Transportation Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Space (commercial competition) Sustainable transport Urban planning 11. Sustainability 0502 economics and business Business Environmental planning Divestment General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Transport Geography. 90:102926 |
| ISSN: | 0966-6923 |
| Popis: | In recent decades, cycling facilities have moved to the forefront of many urban-planning and climate-action initiates. Yet much of the research and policy developments in sustainable transportation are concentrated in high-investment areas, with sparse attention to travel conditions in low-income localities. Drawing from ethnographic methods, this paper explores socio-spatial inequalities and struggles for transportation space within the Mexican bajio. Focusing on the city of Aguascalientes and its outskirts, I explore the implementation of cycling facilities in a context of rapid-freeway expansion, neoliberal restructuring and public-transit divestment. Specifically, this paper analyzes the fragmented implementation of cycling lanes in certain areas of the city, while drawing attention to the experiences of low-income and peri-urban cyclists who operate at the margins of broader motor-vehicle infrastructure. In contexts of widespread spatial exclusions, I suggest that a focus on these commuters' mobility is needed to account for both the planned and inadvertent strategies that they assemble to bypass transportation barriers. What types of temporary bridges, improvised technologies and alternative pathways—what I define as divergent infrastructure—do cyclists configure when standardized systems fail to meet their present needs? |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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