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TY - CHAP
T1 - Pedestrian Stories
T2 - Recovering Sustainable Urban Mobility
AU - Pooley, Colin
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - For most of human history walking has been the principal form of transport for many journeys and it remains the most environmentally and socially sustainable way of travelling. This chapter uses data drawn from a range of qualitative sources to demonstrate how travelers’ attitudes to walking for everyday journeys have changed over time, and to examine the reasons for these changes. It is suggested that three factors have been especially significant: perceptions of normality, attitudes to risk and perceptions of busyness. I argue that the re-establishment of past attitudes towards walking could help to produce much more sustainable urban mobility.
AB - For most of human history walking has been the principal form of transport for many journeys and it remains the most environmentally and socially sustainable way of travelling. This chapter uses data drawn from a range of qualitative sources to demonstrate how travelers’ attitudes to walking for everyday journeys have changed over time, and to examine the reasons for these changes. It is suggested that three factors have been especially significant: perceptions of normality, attitudes to risk and perceptions of busyness. I argue that the re-establishment of past attitudes towards walking could help to produce much more sustainable urban mobility.
KW - Walking
KW - Qualitative
KW - Normality
KW - Convenience
KW - Risk
KW - Urban
KW - Britain
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781789205596
T3 - Explorations in Mobility
BT - A U-Turn to the Future
A2 - Emanuel, Martin
A2 - Schipper, Frank
A2 - Oldenziel, Ruth
PB - Berghahn Books
CY - New York
ER -