Street Rhythms in the ‘Twilight Zone’ – Crepuscular Urban Mobility Rhythms and Their Effects on the Atmospheres of Street Space

In the course of the twentieth century, planners have transformed cities by creating an “automobile urban fabric” and increasingly produced urban streets as spaces of “automobile inclusion”, ordered by a seemingly rational “traffic logic”. Streets have been primarily coded as a space for cars while excluding other traffic modes such as cyclists or pedestrians as well as uses that are not connected to movement. It is this logic and street code that the contemporary ideal of sustainable urban mobility aims to transform: streets should be made for people and accommodate different modes of mobility to overcome cars’ supremacy. This paper takes current planning processes and developments in Berlin and New York as a starting point to explore cyclists’ interest in street space and how it has historically developed since the mid-nineteenth century. Thereby, it will show that the history of urban automobility and urban cycling are deeply intertwined.

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Transferring Urban Mobility Studies in Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to Other Large MENA Cities: Steps toward Sustainable Transport

Urban Development Issues ◽

10.2478/udi-2020-0003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 27-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Houshmand Masoumi ◽

Erik Fruth

Keyword(s):

Decision Makers ◽

Lead Author ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Sustainable Transport ◽

Sustainable Mobility ◽

Large Share ◽

Mena Region ◽

Large Cities ◽

Mobility Studies ◽

Legal Constraints

AbstractThe number of urban mobility studies and projects in the three large metropoles of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo, is growing while other large cities do not enjoy a large share. It would be efficient for those other large cities to adapt the experiences, projects, and studies of Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to their own contexts. This paper can help facilitate that adaptation. It investigates the transferability and generalisability of the findings of a recent publication by the lead author on mobility choices in Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to some other large cities of more than one million inhabitants in the MENA region. The discussion provided here can provide decision-makers in the MENA region with guidance on how to utilise the findings from a recent study on Tehran/Istanbul/Cairo in their own contexts. T-tests were conducted to test the comparability of the three base cities with a sample 57 others with populations of over one million people. The results show that it would be possible to adapt the urban mobility studies of the three base megacities to 3 to 27 cities based on different criteria. Key suggestions identified by this study include providing local accessibility, neighbourhood facilities, and cycling facilities as well as removing social and legal constraints to cycling, advertising cycling, informing people about the harm arising from the overuse of cars, and increasing street connectivity by adding intersections. According to the findings, these evidence-based recommendations can enhance sustainable mobility for the inhabitants of up to 27 large cities.

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22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services ◽

10.1145/3406324.3426767 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dirk Ahlers

Keyword(s):

Urban Mobility ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility

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The Relation Between Residential Self-Selection and Urban Mobility in Middle Eastern Cities: the Case of Alexandria, Egypt

Urban Forum ◽

10.1007/s12132-020-09414-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Houshmand Masoumi ◽

Mohamed R. Ibrahim ◽

Atif Bilal Aslam

Keyword(s):

Middle Eastern ◽

Residential Location ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Built Environments ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Location Choices ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

Transportation Modes ◽

Socio Economic Factors

AbstractThe present paper attempts to fill a part of the gap in the studies on residential location choices and their relations to urban mobility, socio-economics, and the built environment by presenting the results of a study on Alexandria, Egypt, by analysing the results of a survey in eight neighbourhoods undertaken in 2015. Four questions were answered in this study: (i) “How are the main drivers behind residential location choices in Alexandria connected to various socio-demographic groups or people with different availability to urban and built environments?”, (ii) “How are the main residential self-selections in Alexandria associated with one another and which are the most important?”, (iii) “How are the housing location-related decisions of Egyptians similar to or different from international decisions?”, and (iv) “How can planners and decision-makers use the knowledge produced by this study for urban planning and housing in Egypt?”. Library work and the results of a Χ2 test of independence show that availability of transportation modes, nice neighbourhoods, and affordability are the strongest motives behind decisions. However, socio-economic factors are generally stronger than urban mobility and spatial issues. These findings are partly different from those of high-income countries.

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