The crisis justified the urgency, but now we have to go back to the rule of law
Urban mobility governance during Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4840380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franziska X Meinherz (0000-0003-2759-5510, Technical University of Munich), Franziska Meinherz (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, corresponding author), L Fritz (0000-0001-7710-2193, Aarhus University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 508-529 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2023.2242741 |
| OpenAlex | W4385783030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 32 |
During COVID-19, many cities built pop-up infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians. We analyse the experiences of Geneva and Lyon through a qualitative approach based on document analysis and interviews with institutional and societal actors. We explore what contributed to the development of pop-up infrastructure during COVID-19, and how these interventions were shaped by and affected policy-making processes and actors’ agency. We found that COVID-19 accelerated social and political trends regarding urban mobility. In both cities, authorities used the crisis to push through existing plans. Authorities’ commitment and the existence of ready-to-implement plans proved crucial. The implementation processes constituted a breach from usual procedures. In Geneva, this empowered actors who usually act from the margins. In Lyon, authorities adopted pop-up infrastructure as a way to reduce costs. Our study clarifies the potential of experimentation in a context of crisis for urban climate governance and highlights the democratic implications of such interventions
Business · Corporate governance · Democracy · Geography · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Rule of law · Social science · Sociology · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Public Administration
The experimental city
Tactical Urbanism
Tactical urbanism
From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice
Experimenting for sustainability transitions
From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”
Informal urbanism in the state of uncertainty
Pop-up cycling infrastructure as a niche innovation for sustainable transportation in European cities
The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability
Urban living labs
Tactical urbanism as a means of testing relational processes in space
Interrogating urban experiments
Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change
Cities as leaders in EU multilevel climate governance
Governance experiments in climate action
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Ecological concerns weren't the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards
Urban governance innovation and Covid-19
Democracy in the risk society? Learning from the new politics of mobility in Munich
A radical public administration? Green radicalism and policy influence among local environmental officials in Sweden
Revisiting the urban politics of climate change
Thematic Analysis
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |