Hickman, R;
(2025)
Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Achieving sustainable transport systems and travel behaviours is proving problematic in many cities, including contestation over strategies and projects. Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility challenges the dominant discourses of motorisation and the ineffective implementation of sustainable mobility, arguing that transport planning history is not merely a record of successful projects but a reflection of how transport has been provided, including who and what has been included or excluded. Using discourse analysis, the book examines socially constructed realities in transport planning across 20 international case studies. Drawing from Michel Foucault's concepts, it explores why transport systems and travel behaviours differ by space and time. The discussion starts in Plymouth, a city rebuilt around motorisation. A range of cities are then examined, following different trajectories for transport planning, including Oxford; Freiburg; Singapore; Bogotá; Houten; Chongqing; London, King’s Cross; Rio de Janeiro; Utrecht; Copenhagen; Malmö; Dar es Salaam; Shenzhen; Manchester; Valenciennes; Medellín; Delhi; London, West Ealing-South; and Portland. Each city offers unique discursive formations and practices for transport and city planning, suggesting progressive pathways towards sustainable urban mobility. Comprehensive and critical, this book aids students, policy makers, consultants and the public in reconsidering their transport systems for greater sustainability.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800089662 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800089662 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089662 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2025 Images © Author, 2025 unless otherwise stated in captions Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Hickman, R. 2025. Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089662 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | transport, city planning, discourse analysis, Michel Foucault, motorisation, public transport, walking, cycling, street design, public transit |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216205 |
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