‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Rethinking City Street Transformations through the Lens of Epistemic Justice

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the journal’s Interface Editor Katie McClymont for her thoughtful and incisive review rounds, which significantly improved the quality of this article. This Interface emerged from a session titled ‘What is the Street For? Interrogating Ways of Seeing and the Epistemic Justice of Reconfiguring Street Space’ at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in September 2022. Some of the contributors came together during a Knowledge Frontiers symposium organised by the British Academy and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, from whom funding for a follow-up project is gratefully acknowledged (grant number KFSCIFAR22SF1\100002). Emilia Smeds’ time spent on this project was further supported by the JPI Urban Europe EX-TRA project (no. 875022) with funding from the Economic and Social Science Research Council (grant number ES/W000563/1).

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Emilia Smeds is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Division of Urban and Regional Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her core interest is socially just transitions towards sustainable urban systems, with disciplinary grounding in urban studies, transport geography, and socio-technical transitions. Recent research has examined the governance of urban experimentation, citizen perspectives on tactical urbanism, transport equity for low-income workers, and long-term transition pathways to climate-neutral mobility. Email: [email protected]

Ersilia Verlinghieri is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster and Research Affiliate at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford. Her research sits at the intersection of urban studies and transport geography, with particular emphasis on issues of social and environmental justice in low-carbon mobility transitions, participatory planning and participatory research methodologies. Recent research has focused on working conditions in the cargo bike sector, the governance of transport decarbonisation, and the evaluation of social impacts of transport interventions. Email: [email protected]

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Emilia Smeds is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Division of Urban and Regional Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her core interest is socially just transitions towards sustainable urban systems, with disciplinary grounding in urban studies, transport geography, and socio-technical transitions. Recent research has examined the governance of urban experimentation, citizen perspectives on tactical urbanism, transport equity for low-income workers, and long-term transition pathways to climate-neutral mobility. Email: [email protected]

Acknowledgment

The development of this empirical contribution was greatly supported by Laura Varona and Daniel Zamora.

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Joanna Kocsis is a community-engaged researcher whose work examines how creative practice can be used in research, policymaking and civil society organizing to build socially just and sustainable cities. She uses art methods to examine the contemporary transformations of urban space that result from the economic and social restructuring of communities impoverished by globalization. Email: [email protected]

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the editors and reviewers of this Interface for valuable feedback.

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James J. T. Connolly is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and previously Co-Director of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). James’ work focuses on how urban planning and policy serves as an arena for addressing social-ecological conflicts in cities. Email: [email protected]

Ana Polgár is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on how nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation affect, reinforce or respond to socio-spatial inequalities in different developmental and environmental conditions. Email: [email protected]

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Kevin Manaugh is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Geography and Bieler School of Environment at McGill University in Montreal. His research focuses on the equity and justice dimensions of transport infrastructure and policy. Email: [email protected]

E. O. D. Waygood is a Professor of Transport at Polytechnique Montréal. His research interest is in sustainable transport in general. Dr. Waygood researches how transport interacts with our lives, with a special interest in children’s independent travel. He was the lead editor for the book Transport and Children’s Wellbeing. Email: [email protected]

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by Colciencias Scholarship No. 783, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of Colombia.

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Paola Castañeda is Assistant Professor of Geography at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Her PhD (University of Oxford) thesis, titled “How is the Bike Made Mobile?” examined the spatialities, knowledge-practices and discourses of cycling activists in Latin America. She continues to examine cycle mobilities in Latin America in continuous dialogue with activists and practitioners. Email: [email protected]

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Matthew Wargent is Lecturer in Urban Planning and Development at Cardiff University. His research interests centre on the relationship between communities and the state and the correlation between public participation and social justice. Recent research has explored the role of private sector expertise in urban governance; the impact of community-led planning on housebuilding; and the nature of social justice in under-represented communities. Email: [email protected]

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1 FEMPUBLICBCN (2021) Video testimonials available at: FEMPUBLICBCN – Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (bcnuej.org)