Pedestrian planning and the challenges of instrumental rationality in transport planning: emerging strategies in three Swedish municipalities

Autor: Till Koglin, Åse Svensson, David Lindelöw
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Planning Theory & Practice. 17:405-420
ISSN: 1470-000X
1464-9357
DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2016.1199813
Popis: Despite having been subject to a strong and many-sided critique, instrumental rationality persists as paramount in transport planning practice and research. This paper argues that it is crucial to acknowledge the prescriptive and normative facet of instrumental rationality in order to understand its impact on transport planning. The aim is to explore to what extent pedestrian planning – within a specific geographical context – has subscribed to the methods employed within the limits of instrumental rationality. The study draws on data from interviews with urban and transport planners in three municipalities in the southern part of Sweden (Malmo, Lund, and Helsingborg) together with those municipalities’ urban and transport planning strategies. The material is analysed through three aspects related to (1) who the road user is in the realm of instrumental rationality, (2) what kind of knowledge is of interest within instrumental rationality and (3) how instrumental rationality takes physical form. T...
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