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It’s the complexity stupid!
Published in Jens Stissing Jensen, Matthew Cashmore, Philipp Späth, The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions, 2018
Shivant Jhagroe, Derk Loorbach
Impact became visible in the mobility case almost two years after the mobility-arena sessions took place. A new narrative about inclusive and sustainable mobility had spread widely, seemingly co-evolving with a sharp rise in cyclists and the use of public transport, while car use remained stable or perhaps declined very slightly. The narrative stimulated ideas for phasing out car parking in public spaces, pushing automobility outside the city centre and introducing emission zones. It has also directly reshaped the nature of policy-making in the mobility domain, in that a more experimental and pragmatic way of working came about. Policy initiatives were set up, such as widening bike-lanes, experimenting with heat and rain sensors at bike-traffic lights to determine traffic-light priorities, offering inhabitants of streets the possibility to close off their street for two months to use it as living street, and a social cycling programme seeking to develop local professions, teaching people to bike to offer freedom of mobility. The policy department started to experiment with new parking rules and offered project developers the possibility to lower parking norms for new project development voluntarily if car-sharing and sustainable mobility plans were implemented.
The two-wheeled renaissance in China—an empirical review of bicycle, E-bike, and motorbike development
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2021
Tianqi Gu, Inhi Kim, Graham Currie
The release of the “Shanghai Street Design Guideline” in 2016 was a milestone policy, which was different from former local guidelines or regulations for human-powered bicycles. In this guideline, detailed design requirements were proposed to fulfill a complete and living street, in which human-powered cycling was promoted—for the first time in an influential local regulation—at a higher priority than motor car and public transport (Shanghai Municipal Administration of Planning and Land Resources & Shanghai Municipal Transportation Committee 2016).