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People-centered urban measures towards sustainable mobility
| Resumo: | The challenges resulting from urbanization growth lead to a continuous need for innovation, regarding a wide approach of sustainable development, when both planning and managing the cities. Once the transportation sector is one with the largest impacts concerning pollutants and greenhouse gases emissions, it is peremptory that governments consider this sector as a target to work in order to achieve the global decarbonization goals set by 2030 Agenda. Therefore, the importance to act in the cities, concerning climate changes, implies a creative capability of interdisciplinary technicians to develop feasible methods to guide governments and citizens towards sustainable solutions of urban planning applied in short periods for long-term changes. The Municipal Council of Braga, a city in the north of Portugal, launched in 2018 the project BUILD – Braga Urban Innovation Laboratory Demonstrator, which is a Living Lab that intended to promote the city decarbonization. To achieve a behavioral change allowing a transition towards sustainable mobility, through a collaborative and co-created model between interdisciplinary technical team and stakeholders, a diverse range of activities with a people-centered approach was developed. For instance workshops, in which playful participatory processes and participatory mapping were applied. The format of the workshops was defined according to the stakeholder, namely the scholar community, the residents and general city-users of BUILD area. The workshops aimed at the development of an intervention in the public space, while simultaneously spreading and promoting the concepts of sustainable urban mobility and tactical urbanism among the citizens. Since it is a concrete and achievable solution applied in short periods, tactical urbanism represented an efficient method to develop actions of public participation regarding the city planning. At the same time it highlighted the importance of a cohesive and continuous action of population’s engagement. Furthermore, the promotion of sustainable mobility in a participatory model enables the construction and production of more live and inspiring cities, contributing, simultaneously, to tackle the causes of climate change and to improve urban life quality. |
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| Autores principais: | Souza, Pétilin Assis Azevedo de |
| Assunto: | Cities decarbonization Public participation Sustainable urban mobility Tactical urbanism Urban measures Descarbonização de cidades Medidas urbanísticas Mobilidade urbana sustentável Participação pública Urbanismo tático |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | The challenges resulting from urbanization growth lead to a continuous need for innovation, regarding a wide approach of sustainable development, when both planning and managing the cities. Once the transportation sector is one with the largest impacts concerning pollutants and greenhouse gases emissions, it is peremptory that governments consider this sector as a target to work in order to achieve the global decarbonization goals set by 2030 Agenda. Therefore, the importance to act in the cities, concerning climate changes, implies a creative capability of interdisciplinary technicians to develop feasible methods to guide governments and citizens towards sustainable solutions of urban planning applied in short periods for long-term changes. The Municipal Council of Braga, a city in the north of Portugal, launched in 2018 the project BUILD – Braga Urban Innovation Laboratory Demonstrator, which is a Living Lab that intended to promote the city decarbonization. To achieve a behavioral change allowing a transition towards sustainable mobility, through a collaborative and co-created model between interdisciplinary technical team and stakeholders, a diverse range of activities with a people-centered approach was developed. For instance workshops, in which playful participatory processes and participatory mapping were applied. The format of the workshops was defined according to the stakeholder, namely the scholar community, the residents and general city-users of BUILD area. The workshops aimed at the development of an intervention in the public space, while simultaneously spreading and promoting the concepts of sustainable urban mobility and tactical urbanism among the citizens. Since it is a concrete and achievable solution applied in short periods, tactical urbanism represented an efficient method to develop actions of public participation regarding the city planning. At the same time it highlighted the importance of a cohesive and continuous action of population’s engagement. Furthermore, the promotion of sustainable mobility in a participatory model enables the construction and production of more live and inspiring cities, contributing, simultaneously, to tackle the causes of climate change and to improve urban life quality. |
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