Designing Space for Walking as the Primary Mode of Travel
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Chapter whose stated purpose is to discuss the diversity of research approaches to walking, comparing objective and subjective analytic traditions; boundary between a methods review and a domain review.
This chapter examines walking and urban design, not research itself.
Urban design chapter on walking as travel mode, not science-of-science.
Abstract
Walking and urban spaces are a matter of course, in the era of so-called soft, sustainable, or active mobility, planners, city planners, architects, landscape architects, and other actors who create the city, attributing many virtues to this way of moving or getting around. This chapter discusses the diversity of research approaches to walking. It focuses on the physical–spatial determinants of walkability in relation to the perceptions and emotions of walkers. The chapter highlights some of the challenges of scales of analysis in a perspective of intervention on living environments. The social experience of walking is juxtaposed with the sensory experience. The advantage of the urban atmosphere analysis is that it allows a comparison between purely objective approaches that analyze the morphofunctional determinants of the walking environment and subjective analyses that focus on either the sensory reactions of the body or the sociological dimensions associated with the walking experience.
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The record
- Venue
- Topic
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Field
- Social Sciences
- Canadian institutions
- Université de Montréal
- Funders
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- Keywords
- WalkabilityPerspective (graphical)Space (punctuation)PerceptionBuilt environmentDiversity (politics)SociologyRelation (database)Mode (computer interface)PsychologyGeographyArchitectural engineeringComputer scienceEngineeringHuman–computer interactionCivil engineeringArtificial intelligence
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