A Pedestrian World
Competing Rationalities and the Calculation of Transportation Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason W Patton (City of Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency, 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Suite 3315, Oakland, CA 94612, USA), Jason Patton (0000-0001-7162-1507, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 928-944 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a389 |
| OpenAlex | W1985817147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 23 |
In this paper I examine pedestrian-motor-vehicle conflicts in US cities as competing forms of rationality based in particular values, techniques, and material forms. The kernel of dispute is the transportation engineer's focus on 'traffic flow' in allowing motor vehicles to move as efficiently as possible versus the pedestrian advocate's desire for 'place' as the intimate context of urban life. I consider the City of Oakland's Pedestrian Master Plan as a challenge to the mandate for traffic flow operationalized by the Transportation Research Board's Highway Capacity Manual. These values and techniques shape intersections, pedestrian crossings, street corners, and other taken-for-granted material forms in the urban built environment. Within the constraints of shared right-of-way, these competing rationalities are negotiated through spatial and temporal strategies that, historically, have resulted in the hierarchical ordering of the automobile over pedestrians in the US city. However, a growing emphasis on walking, bicycling, and public-transit-riding is reshaping the predominant values, techniques, and material forms to facilitate street design for multiple transportation modes
Context (archaeology · Environmental planning · Geography · Mandate · Master plan · Operationalization · Pedestrian · Pedestrian crossing · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Rationality · Transport engineering · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Public Spaces through Art · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Law
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Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street
A Sense of Momentum
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Critical geographies of transport and mobility
Automobility and the Politics of Bicycling in New York City
The Evolving Metropolis
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Trust in Numbers
The Social Qualities of Being on Foot
Multiple Worlds on Oakland's Streets Social Practice and the Built Environment
Street Smarts
The Limits of Rationality
Viacraticamerica
The City and the Car
Automobility-A Social Problem and Theoretical Concept
A Century of Automobility
Monsters in Metal Cocoons
Doing Office Work on the Motorway
Mobility and Safety
Driving in the City
The 'System' of Automobility
Automobilities
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |