24,607
Views
100
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”: can street experiments transform urban mobility?

ORCID Icon
Pages 734-753 | Received 10 Jul 2019, Accepted 23 Apr 2020, Published online: 06 May 2020

References

  • Bertolini, L. (2007). Evolutionary urban transportation planning: An exploration. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 39(8), 1998–2019. doi: 10.1068/a38350
  • Chaudhuri, A., & Zieff, S. G. (2015). Do open streets initiatives impact local businesses? The case of Sunday streets in San Francisco, California. Journal of Transport & Health, 2(4), 529–539. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2015.07.001
  • Cohen, D., Han, B., Derose, K. P., Williamson, S., Paley, A., & Batteate, C. (2016). CicLAvia: Evaluation of participation, physical activity and cost of an open streets event in Los Angeles. Preventive Medicine, 90, 26–33. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.06.009
  • Cortinez-O’Ryan, A., Albagli, A., Sadarangani, K. P., & Aguilar-Farias, N. (2017). Reclaiming streets for outdoor play: A process and impact evaluation of “Juega en tu Barrio” (play in your neighborhood), an intervention to increase physical activity and opportunities for play. PLoS ONE, 12(7), e0180172. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180172
  • Cowman, K. (2017). Play streets: Women, children and the problem of urban traffic, 1930–1970. Social History, 42(2), 233–256. doi: 10.1080/03071022.2017.1290366
  • De Groote, J. (2019). The welfare implications of parking policy. PhD Thesis, Free University Amsterdam.
  • D’Haese, S., Van Dyck, D., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Deforche, B., & Cardon, G. (2015). Organizing “Play Streets” during school vacations can increase physical activity and decrease sedentary time in children. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 12(1), 14. doi: 10.1186/s12966-015-0171-y
  • Douay, N., & Prevot, M. (2015). Park(ing) day: Label international d’un activisme édulcoré? Environnement Urbain / Urban Environment, 8, 14–33. doi: 10.7202/1027735ar
  • Engelberg, J. K., Carlson, J. A., Black, M. L., Ryan, S., & Sallis, J. F. (2014). Ciclovía participation and impacts in San Diego, CA: The first CicloSDias. Preventive Medicine, 69, S66–S73. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.10.005
  • Espinoza, A., Mcmahan, S., Naffzinger, T., & Wiersma, L.D. (2012). Creating Playgrounds, Where Playgrounds Do Not Exist. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 10(SI-Obesity), 13–19. doi: 10.32398/cjhp.v10iSI-Obesity.1466
  • Evans, J. (2016). Trials and tribulations: Problematizing the city through/as urban experimentation. Geography Compass, 10(10), 429–443. doi: 10.1111/gec3.12280
  • Eyler, A. A., Hipp, J. A., & Lokuta, J. (2015). Moving the barricades to physical activity: A qualitative analysis of open streets initiatives across the United States American. American Journal of Health Promotion, 30(1), e50–e58. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.131212-QUAL-633
  • Gehl, J. (2010). Cities for people. Washington, DC: Island Press.
  • Grin, J., Rotmans, J., Schot, J., Geels, F., & Loorbach, D. (2010). Transitions to sustainable development – part 1. New directions in the study of long-term transformative change. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Hipp, J. A., Bird, A., van Bakergem, M., & Yarnall, E. (2017). Moving targets: Promoting physical activity in public spaces via open streets in the US. Preventive Medicine, 103, S15–S20. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.10.014
  • Holden, E., Gilpin, G., & Banister, D. (2019). Sustainable mobility at thirty. Sustainability, 11(7), 1965. doi: 10.3390/su11071965
  • Karvonen, A., & Van Heur, B. (2014). Urban laboratories: Experiments in reworking cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(2), 379–392. doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12075
  • Koué, C. (2013). Sustainable implementation of emerging infrastructure in cities: A case study of parklets. Master Thesis, Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
  • Kuhlberg, J. A., Hipp, J. A., Eyler, A. A., & Chang, G. (2014). Open streets initiatives in the U.S.: Closed to traffic, open to physical activity. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 11(8), 1468–1474. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2012-0376
  • Littke, H. (2016). Revisiting the San Francisco parklets problematizing publicness, parks, and transferability. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 15, 165–173. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.12.010
  • Lofland, L. (1998). The public realm: Exploring the city’s quintessential social territory. London: Taylor and Francis.
  • Loorbach, D. (2010). Transition management for sustainable development: A prescriptive, complexity-based governance framework. Governance, 23(1), 161–183. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01471.x
  • Lydon, M., & Garcia, A. (2015). Tactical urbanism: Short-term action for long-term change. Washington, DC: Island Press.
  • Mason, M., Welch, S. B., Becker, A., Block, D. R., Gomez, L., Hernandez, A., & Suarez-Balcazar, Y. (2011). Ciclovìa in Chicago: A strategy for community development to improve public health. Community Development, 42(2), 221–239. doi: 10.1080/15575330.2011.558203
  • McGlone, N. (2016). Pop-up kids: Exploring children’s experience of temporary public space. Australian Planner, 53(2), 117–126. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2015.1135811
  • Mehta, V. (2015). The street as ecology. In S. Zavestoski & J. Agyeman (Eds.), Incomplete streets. Processes, practices, and possibilities (pp. 94–115). London & New York: Routledge.
  • Meyer, M. R. U., Bridges, C. N., Schmid, T. L., Hecht, A. A., & Porter, K. M. P. (2019). Systematic review of how play streets impact opportunities for active play, physical activity, neighborhoods, and communities. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 335. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6609-4
  • Meyer, M. R. U., Hamilton, C. N. B., Prochnow, T., McClendon, M. E., Arnold, K. T., Wilkins, E., … Porter, K. M. P. (2019). Come together, play, be active: Physical activity engagement of school-age children at play streets in four diverse rural communities in the US. Preventive Medicine, 129, 105869. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.105869
  • Montes, F., Sarmiento, O. L., Zarama, R., Pratt, M., Wang, G., Jacoby, E., … Kahlmeier, S. (2012). Do health benefits outweigh the costs of mass recreational programs? An economic analysis of four Ciclovía programs. Journal of Urban Health, 89(1), 153–170. doi: 10.1007/s11524-011-9628-8
  • Murray, J., & Devecchi, C. (2016). The Hantown street play project. International Journal of Play, 5(2), 196–211. doi: 10.1080/21594937.2016.1203662
  • Nevens, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Gorissen, L., & Loorbach, D. (2013). Urban transition labs: Co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 50, 111–122. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.12.001
  • Norton, P. (2015). Of love affairs and other stories. In S. Zavestoski & J. Agyeman (Eds.), Incomplete streets. Processes, practices, and possibilities (pp. 17–35). London & New York: Routledge.
  • Panganiban, J., & Ocubillo, R. A. (2014). Citywide assessment of parklets and plazas. Summary of data collected for summer 2014 public life study. Pavements to Parks, San Francisco Planning Department.
  • Perry, C. K., Ko, L. K., Hernandez, L., Ortiz, R., & Linde, S. (2017). Ciclovia in a rural latino community: Results and lessons learned. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 23(4), 360–363. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000555
  • Pratt, L. (2010). Divisadero trial impact report. San Francisco: San Francisco Great Streets Project.
  • Pratt, L. (2011). Parklet impact study. San Francisco: San Francisco Great Streets Project.
  • Roorda, C., Wittmayer, J., Henneman, P., Steenbergen, F., van Frantzeskaki, N., & Loorbach, D. (2014). Transition management in the urban context: Guidance manual. Rotterdam: DRIFT, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  • Rotmans, J., Kemp, R., & van Asselt, M. (2001). More evolution than revolution: Transition management in public policy. Foresight (los Angeles, Calif ), 3(1), 15–31.
  • Sadik-Khan, J., & Solomonow, S. (2017). Streetfight: Handbook for an urban revolution. New York: Penguin.
  • Salazar-Collier, L. C., Reininger, B., Gowen, R., Rodriguez, A., & Wilkinson, A. (2018). Evaluation of event physical activity engagement at an open streets initiative within a Texas–Mexico border town. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 15(8), 605–612. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2017-0112
  • Sarmiento, O. L., Díaz Del Castillo, A., Triana, C. A., Acevedo, M. J., Gonzalez, S. A., & Pratt, M. (2017). Reclaiming the streets for people: Insights from Ciclovías recreativas in Latin America. Preventive Medicine, 103, S34–S40. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.07.028
  • Savini, F., & Bertolini, L. (2019). Urban experimentation as a politics of niches. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51(4), 831–848. doi: 10.1177/0308518X19826085
  • Semenza, J. C. (2003). The intersection of urban planning, art, and public health: The Sunnyside Piazza. American Journal of Public Health, 93(9), 1439–1441. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.93.9.1439
  • Semenza, J. C., & March, T. L. (2009). An urban community-based intervention to advance social interactions. Environment and Behavior, 41(1), 22–42. doi: 10.1177/0013916507311136
  • Semenza, J., March, T., & Bontempo, B. (2007). Community-initiated urban development: An ecological intervention. Journal of Urban Health, 84(1), 8–20. doi: 10.1007/s11524-006-9124-8
  • Shoup, D. (2018). Parking and the city. London: Taylor and Francis.
  • Smith, A., & Raven, R. (2012). What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability. Research Policy, 41(6), 1025–1036. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.12.012
  • Stroman, G. (2014). Opportunity mapping San Francisco parklets and plazas. San Francisco: Pavement to Parks, San Francisco Planning Department.
  • Torres, A., Sarmiento, O. L., Stauber, C., & Zarama, R. (2013). The Ciclovia and Cicloruta programs: Promising interventions to promote physical activity and social capital in Bogotá, Colombia. American Journal of Public Health, 103(2), e23–e30. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301142
  • Triana, C. A., Sarmiento, O. L., Bravo-Balado, A., González, S. A., Bolívar, M. A., Lemoine, P., … Katzmarzyk, P. T. (2019). Active streets for children: The case of the Bogotá Ciclovía. PLoS One, 14(5), e0207791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207791
  • Von Schönfeld, K., & Bertolini, L. (2017). Urban streets: Epitomes of planning challenges and opportunities at the interface of public space and mobility. Cities, 68, 48–55. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.04.012
  • Zieff, S. G., Chaudhuri, A., & Musselman, E. (2016). Creating neighborhood recreational space for youth and children in the urban environment: Play(ing in the) streets in San Francisco. Children and Youth Services Review, 70, 95–101. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.09.014
  • Zieff, S. G., Hipp, A., Eyler, A. A., & Kim, M. S. (2013). Ciclovia initiatives: Engaging communities, partners and policymakers along the route to success. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 19(3 0 1), S74–S82. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e3182841982
  • Zieff, S. G., Kim, M. S., Wilson, J., & Tierney, P. (2014). A “Ciclovia” in San Francisco: Characteristics and physical activity behavior of Sunday streets participants. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 11(2), 249–255. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2011-0290
  • Zieff, S. G., Musselman, E. A., Sarmiento, O. L., González, S. A., Aguilar-Farias, N., Winter, S. J., … King, A. C. (2018). Talking the walk: Perceptions of neighborhood characteristics from users of open streets programs in Latin America and the USA. Journal of Urban Health, 95(6), 899–912. doi: 10.1007/s11524-018-0262-6