Public Space and Transportation. Friend or Foe?
Résumé
Engaging with the field of transportation and its operational concerns has hardly been in the research agendas on public space. This distancing can be explained by the construction of the category of public space breaking with the technicist and functionalist approaches of the city, long prevalent in transportation and urban development studies. This chapter aims to elucidate the tension at stake between these two framings of public space, through its functions, on the one hand, and through its multiple uses, on the other hand. It demonstrates how much transportation and public space are entangled, according to specific modalities. The chapter questions the variability of space sharing between transportation and non-transportation activities. It entails rehabilitating transportation infrastructures that have yet to be recognized as public spaces and achieving objectives of social and environmental justice.
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Fait partie de hal-05128749 Ouvrage Jean-Baptiste Frétigny (Dir.). Geographical Places in Transportation. ISTE; Wiley, 2025, SCIENCES, 9781789451740. ⟨10.1002/9781394388486⟩. ⟨hal-05128749⟩
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