TY - JOUR
T1 - Transitioning to a Low Carbon Society?
T2 - The Case of Personal Transportation and Urban Form in Copenhagen: 1947 to the Present
AU - Valderrama Pineda, Andres Felipe
AU - Vogel, Nina
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Our objective is to account for the transitions in urban form and personal transportation in Copenhagen since 1947. Sustainability objectives are currently framed as efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Urban transportation is a key area of intervention. In public debates, political parties, experts and citizens make assertions about what is possible by referring to past experiences. Our contribution is to explore the official histories of Copenhagen in order to account for the transitions in mobility during the last six decades. We make a critical application of the multilevel perspective (MLP), which is the most used theory to study transitions. Our application is critical because the context of urban mobility necessarily includes a discussion of urban form development; therefore, we suggest ways in which the MLP should be adjusted in order to account for the historical dynamics evidenced in the empirical material collected for this study.
AB - Our objective is to account for the transitions in urban form and personal transportation in Copenhagen since 1947. Sustainability objectives are currently framed as efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Urban transportation is a key area of intervention. In public debates, political parties, experts and citizens make assertions about what is possible by referring to past experiences. Our contribution is to explore the official histories of Copenhagen in order to account for the transitions in mobility during the last six decades. We make a critical application of the multilevel perspective (MLP), which is the most used theory to study transitions. Our application is critical because the context of urban mobility necessarily includes a discussion of urban form development; therefore, we suggest ways in which the MLP should be adjusted in order to account for the historical dynamics evidenced in the empirical material collected for this study.
KW - sustainable transitions
KW - urban mobility
KW - Copenhagen
KW - history
KW - multi-level perspective (MLP)
U2 - 10.3167/TRANS.2014.040202
DO - 10.3167/TRANS.2014.040202
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2045-4813
VL - 4
SP - 4
EP - 22
JO - Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
JF - Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
IS - 2
ER -