Publication details
The adoption of mobility policies in land-use urban planning practice: State-of-play and future challenges
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | For many years now, cities and urban regions have been struggling against excessive mobility caused by disproportionate suburbanization and urban sprawl. Visions of urban mobility are often part of the discourse encouraging access-focused urban transformations and sustainable mobility and redesigning existing structures into mixed-use urban space, together fulfilling the concept of the short-distance city (or 15-minute city). Urban visions of reduced mobility needs are being translated into policy instruments (strategies) and spatial planning tools. There are high expectations from urban spatial plans, which are, however, in many respects rigid instruments of statutory regulations. The research seeks to shed light on: (i) how the key visions of urban mobility are adopted by the technical language of land-use planning and applied to the zoning regulations; (ii) the validity of urban policy ethos conceiving urban mobility practices as the result of the physical urban configuration. Empirically grounded in the space of post-socialist cities and using the case study of Brno city (Czech Republic), the research unpacks the interconnected processes of mobility policies and land-use urban planning practice. The empirical research is based on data from a survey of transport behavior in Brno carried out in 2021, data from the last census in 2021, and the regulations of the new Brno land-use plan proposal. The findings not only demonstrate the difficulty of transferring the spatial imaginaries of the compact or 15-minute city into the regulatory framework of the zoning mechanism but also challenges the theoretical assumptions regarding the reduction of motorized individual mobility and the increase of walking or cycling within the land-use planning practice. The results are framed by an ontological and epistemological shift, labelled as “mobilities turn”, that foregrounds “moving” as a central part of life within sociological and geographical research and has implications for new urban models and transport planning. |