Winter City Urbanism: Enabling All Year Connectivity for Soft Mobility
This study explores connectivity for soft mobility in the winter season. Working with residents from the sub-arctic city of Luleå, Sweden, the research examines how the interaction between the built environment and winter season affects people’s use of the outdoor environment. The research questions...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6571717 2023-05-15T15:06:24+02:00 Winter City Urbanism: Enabling All Year Connectivity for Soft Mobility Chapman, David Nilsson, Kristina L. Rizzo, Agatino Larsson, Agneta 2019-05-22 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571717/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31121986 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101820 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571717/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31121986 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101820 © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Article Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101820 2019-06-23T00:32:40Z This study explores connectivity for soft mobility in the winter season. Working with residents from the sub-arctic city of Luleå, Sweden, the research examines how the interaction between the built environment and winter season affects people’s use of the outdoor environment. The research questions for this study are (1) How do residents perceive the effects of winter on an areas spatial structure and pattern of streets and pathways? and (2) What enablers and barriers impact resident soft mobility choices and use of the public realm in winter? Methods used were mental mapping and photo elicitation exercises. These were used to gain a better understanding of people’s perception of soft mobility in winter. The results were analysed to identify how soft mobility is influenced by the winter season. The discussion highlights that at the neighbourhood scale, residents perceive that the winter alters an areas spatial structure and pattern of streets and pathways. It was also seen to reduce ease of understanding of the public realm and townscape. In conclusion, it is argued that new and re-tooled town planning strategies, such as extending blue/ green infrastructure planning to include white space could help better enable all year outdoor activity in winter cities. Text Arctic Luleå Luleå Luleå PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 10 1820 |
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This study explores connectivity for soft mobility in the winter season. Working with residents from the sub-arctic city of Luleå, Sweden, the research examines how the interaction between the built environment and winter season affects people’s use of the outdoor environment. The research questions for this study are (1) How do residents perceive the effects of winter on an areas spatial structure and pattern of streets and pathways? and (2) What enablers and barriers impact resident soft mobility choices and use of the public realm in winter? Methods used were mental mapping and photo elicitation exercises. These were used to gain a better understanding of people’s perception of soft mobility in winter. The results were analysed to identify how soft mobility is influenced by the winter season. The discussion highlights that at the neighbourhood scale, residents perceive that the winter alters an areas spatial structure and pattern of streets and pathways. It was also seen to reduce ease of understanding of the public realm and townscape. In conclusion, it is argued that new and re-tooled town planning strategies, such as extending blue/ green infrastructure planning to include white space could help better enable all year outdoor activity in winter cities. |
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