Capturing the Socio‐Spatiality of Walking
A Historical Coding of Stockholm’s Street Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myron Emanuel (0000-0001-6867-5790, KTH Royal Institute of Technology), William Hilliard (0009-0002-9859-6596, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.9631 |
| OpenAlex | W4411541619 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 39 |
Walking develops in a dynamic relationship to its socio‐material environment. A historical perspective helps nuance the multiplicity of interrelating factors that influence the practice. This article focuses on walking in Stockholm between 1880 and 1939, a period of great change to the city’s streets and movement within them. Through a detailed coding of 466 photographs, depicting more than 3,000 pedestrians, we examine micro‐scalar elements, such as the use, material, and demographic of the pavement, to allow us to plot developments in the socio‐spatial character of walking over time. The results reveal stable patterns as well as both gradual and rapid change. The intensity of pedestrians remained over time as did the sociality of streets. With increasing automobility, however, pedestrians were increasingly found on pavements rather than roadways. A slightly skewed gender balance also remained across the studied period, though men’s and women’s more specific street use varied substantially. Meanwhile, the presence of children in streets and their independent mobility declined radically. Some of these patterns also varied across different types of streets. These findings are discussed in relation to urban automobility, wider societal trends, and their relevance to walkability studies and present‐day efforts to increase walking
Built environment · Civil engineering · Geography · Sociality · Sociology · Walkability · Engineering · Noise Effects and Management · Urban Green Space and Health · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Newspaper City
The Street
Car free cities
From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”
Capturing Gendered Mobility and Street Use in the Historical City
Introduction
Controlling walking in Stockholm during the inter-war period
A charitable indulgence
Persistent pedestrianism
From city streets to suburban woodlands
Asphalt kids and the matrix city
Containing children
Constructing the sidewalks
Mapping Childhood in Amsterdam
On the Vienna Corso
Challenging the system
Pavement publics in late nineteenth-century Stockholm
(Un)equal footing
When Walking Became Serious
Constructing the Cyclist Ideology and Representations in Urban Traffic Planning in Stockholm, 1930–70
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970
Crossing the Road in Britain, 1931–1976
Those “Gorgeous Incongruities”
The forgotten role of pedestrian transportation in urban life
The gender of walking
Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets
The New Mobilities Paradigm
Street Rivals
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |