Browsing by Author "Geurs, Karst T."

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    On the journey of transforming transport systems for human scale cities
    (2021-08-12) Mladenović, Miloš; Willberg, Elias; Toivonen, Tuuli; Geurs, Karst T.; Department of Built Environment; Planning and Transportation; University of Helsinki; University of Twente
    This chapter concludes the book Transport in Human Scale Cities. The chapter includes four parts, with the first three parts including highlights and reflections on findings from each of the sections of the book. The first part focuses on human scale mobility in urban transport systems. The second part focuses on lessons for responsible innovation practices for human scale cities. The third part focuses on potentials for developing planning processes for human scale cities. The last part of this chapter includes reflections on the diverse aspects of systemic transformation. First, we argue for changes in actants responsible for envisioning futures, their actions, as well as emotions and virtues associated with those actions. Second, we argue for development of governance networks for further knowledge co-creation, organizational activities over time, and rethinking of our collective agenda-setting desires and visions. Third, we argue for transformation of our anchoring conceptualizations, centred around the concept of human scale city. © Miloš N. Mladenović, Tuuli Toivonen, Elias Willberg and Karst T. Geurs 2021.
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    Setting the stage for transport in human scale cities
    (2021-08-12) Mladenović, Miloš; Geurs, Karst T.; Willberg, Elias; Toivonen, Tuuli; Department of Built Environment; Planning and Transportation; University of Twente; University of Helsinki
    This chapter sets the stage for the book Transport in Human Scale Cities. First, we highlight the multitude of current challenges facing urban transport systems, spanning from questions of climate crisis to distributive injustices. Second, we argue that if we are to have a systemic transition out of unsustainable lifestyles, we need to question our understanding of human on the move in the city. Here, the central point of paradigm change is a move away from narrowly defined homo economicus imaginary. As the third point, we argue for the move away from a simplistically rationalist image of our future-making actant networks and processes shaping cities and their transport systems. Thus, we need to recognize the dynamically complex nature of both people in cities and in organizations. For furthering our understanding, we underline the potential that the concept of human scale cities has for unpacking the multidimensional challenge of sustainability transformation. Rescaling our focus towards human scale in cities can be a turning point for us collectively making cities and transport systems better for all life on this planet, now and in the far future. © Miloš N. Mladenović, Tuuli Toivonen, Elias Willberg and Karst T. Geurs 2021.
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    Transport in human scale cities
    (2021-08-12) Department of Built Environment; Mladenovic, Milos; Toivonen, Tuuli; Willberg, Elias; Geurs, Karst T.; Planning and Transportation
    This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in the city and within various organisations responsible for cities. Taking a multidisciplinary approach with a focus on the human scale, expert contributors offer lessons for responsible innovation practices to advance the human scale urban mobility technologies. Chapters also offer new insights into the development of urban and transport planning processes, considering new data, methods and approaches. Drawing on specific examples, the book presents a critical analysis of key topics, including the relationship between transport and wellbeing, the relationship between accessibility and income, the mobility of the elderly and various transport planning and policy questions. Transport in Human Scale Cities will be a critical reading for scholars and students of transport studies, urban economics, and urban and human geography. Its arguments for broadening the discussion on humans in urban mobility systems and necessary actions for the transition out of the current car-dependent mobility regime will also benefit policy-makers and practitioners in these fields.