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THE MAKING OF MOVEMENT:
WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES PUBLIC ACTION ON URBAN MOBILITY?
▪ A structured international research programme across some 10 countries
▪ A survey of student perceptions of the city of tomorrow
▪ Specific analyses on controversial projects by young academics
▪ Personal views from politicians and experts
▪ A collaborative platform: www.movemaking.com
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, PARIS, MARCH 26-27, 2012, AT LA BELLEVILLOISE
19-21 rue Boyer, 75020 Paris (métro Gambetta- Exit Martin Nadaud)
▪ Program
An international research programme and conference headed by IVM with its China and Latin America chairs, and by LA Fabrique de la CitÉ, in partnership with Paris-East University,and with the support of the Île-de- France Institute of Planning and Urbanism and the Caisse des dÉpÔts et Consignations Research Institute, WITH the participation of FNAU (national Federation of planning agencies). Initiative funded by the Île-de-France Region (0810 18 18 18).
As cities grow ever larger and their operations increasingly complex, urban mobilities are now a source of major problems. The policies and plans designed to tackle these problems arise out of interactions between protagonists in different arenas, characterised by different values, interests and institutional dynamics: national and municipal authorities, citydwellers, lobbyists, experts, the media…
So what is it that drives public action on urban mobility issues? The tyranny of crisis? Catastrophe avoidance? Environmental concerns and the fight against global warming? Competition between cities in a global world? Citydweller quality of life? The utopia of a dream city? The constant need for modernisation? The entrenched power of the protagonists? Each city’s particular atmosphere, its relationship to the future, to progress? The knowledge of experts? ...
Another question is what is it that impedes public action? Why is it that some problems, albeit serious, never reach the top of the agenda? Why do innovations continue to be neglected? Why do certain categories of the population never get their voices heard?
Find out more about:
▪ Deciphering the complexities of mobility policies
▪ A common issue for more than twenty cities
▪ An entirely new, international and collaborative working process
▪ Thirty cases – ten cities – three continents
▪ Utopian visions of the city’s future decision-makers – 700 students – 14 cities
▪ Young Researchers Prize – 15 shortlisted contributions on controversial urban issues
▪ The international conference: March 26-27, 2012, Paris
▪ 3 minutes to convince: videos
▪ A series of interviews with decision-makers
▪ Multimedia products
▪ Who’s who?
Deciphering the complexities of mobility policies
The aim of this international research programme is to improve our understanding of how, in their specific context, mobility policies or projects actually evolve, change, are transformed or (re)produced. To do this, the history and conditions of decision making on a mobility solution were observed in different cities. What are the dynamics involved in bringing a problem onto the political agenda and resolving it? In an uncertain and fragmented world, the processes that mould mobility policies and projects are neither logical, linear or rational, nor the outcome of an individual political decision. They are complex, contradictory and multifaceted, specific to a particular context, fashioned by controversies, habits, people, problems and solutions.
A common issue for more than twenty cities
For more than a year, this common question brought together interdisciplinary teams based in cities on several continents: in Beijing, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Lima, Mexico, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris-Île-de-France, in Barcelona, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Manchester, Cali, Jakarta, Ahmedabad, Lyon, Cape Town, Brussels, Athens, Dakar, Guangzhou, Daegu, students described their dreams for the future, young academics analysed specific projects and the controversies they aroused.
An entirely new, international and collaborative working process
The academic teams conducted case analyses of mobility policies and transport projects typical of specific cities, which reveal the gaps between the political aims of a project (or a policy) and the social needs and actual outcomes. These disparities give rise to crises, controversies and failures, and indeed successes emerging from failure. This original method of working is based on an approach specific to the social sciences – terrain analysis – and on interdisciplinary approaches (urbanism, architecture, sociology, political science), which complement the standard perspective of transportation analysis.
Some seven hundred students from all over the world also contributed to the project: through texts, photos, images, videos, they expressed their hopes and ideas about the future city in which they would like to live. Ten PhD and postdoctoral students from all around the world retraced the history of controversies associated with mobility projects. Decision-makers were invited to recount their experience of a particularly controversial decision making process, and experts were asked to state a strongly held opinion.
In the course of the project, the participants exchanged ideas and views through an open collaborative platform – www.movemaking.com – in order to promote crosscutting dialogue on project-processes between researchers from different countries and between researchers and students/citizens/guests.
Thirty cases – ten cities – three continents
This multifaceted, international approach helps us to understand, for example, why the launch of the BRT (bus rapid transit) has been highly successful in Bogotá, where plans for a subway system have so far been ruled out, but has been problematic in Santiago, where urban expressways are successful. It helps us to understand the values and arguments underpinning the successful spread of the self-service bicycle network in Shanghai and Buenos Aires, cities with very different conditions from Paris, where the Vélib’ bicycle network began; or why, in the midst of an economic boom, the people of Beijing accept the principle of a lottery as a draconian means of controlling private car use.
It also helps to identify blindspots, issues that have failed to emerge onto the political or media agenda. Why does the appalling rate of pedestrian fatalities in Lima remain a marginal issue? Why are the day-to-day quality of service problems experienced by commuters in Île-de-France scarcely recognised, whereas grandiose projects are implemented rapidly? Why does the eruption of two wheeled vehicles onto the streets of virtually all the world’s big cities seem to have gone virtually unnoticed in terms of explicit policy initiatives? Why do the poorest sections of the population have so much difficulty making their voices heard?
Utopian visions of the city’s future decision-makers – 700 students – 14 cities
Students of architecture, urbanism and transport engineering – future technicians and decision-makers – have described their utopian visions, dreams and nightmares about the city of the future through images, videos and in written form: dreams of a networked city of vegetation, of mobility as pleasure, of a village city in the megacity, of new forms of citizenship, of community, of new practices and multiple modes of transport…
Young Researchers Prize – 15 shortlisted contributions on controversial urban issues
Following a call for contributions from young researchers (PhD and postdoctoral students) in Europe, Latin America and China, fifteen of the thirty or so submissions received were shortlisted. They retrace the history of a controversy between social actors over a project. How did the problem emerge into the public arena? Who are the social protagonists involved? How did it reach the media and/or political agenda? What group interests, what representations of the city, of sustainable development, of public action, what values, become the focus of conflict?
With Jakarta – the economic and political capital of Indonesia – approaching traffic gridlock, the country’s President has proposed three hotly debated solutions, including the drastic proposal of moving the government and the capital to another city. In the Netherlands, the government’s decision to build a new road network to combat congestion has generated polemics between a disparate range of opponents with a variety of motives: environmentalism, geographical loyalty, political partisanship… In Ahmedabad in India, a latent conflict opposes the government and the municipality on the one hand, and activists and architects-planners on the other. It is focused on a riverbank refurbishment project: will the environmental and social costs prove a counterweight to an urban expressway project?
The prize for the best contribution is supported by the Île-de-France Region. It will be awarded at the international conference on March 26-27 in Paris.
The international conference: March 26-27, 2012, Paris
This two-day conference will bring together all the teams from around the world who contributed to the research and discussion processes. Academics, experts, public figures, decision-makers, will discuss the crosscutting themes that emerged from the different case studies. The discussions will be punctuated with films, points of view and personal accounts.
▪ Program
3 minutes to convince: videos
Experts with a strong opinion on a measure that could help to improve urban mobility record their position by webcam: these videos will be screened at the conference. For example, for some THE solution is periurban development, whereas for others it is the compact city; or a drastic parking fee policy; or replacing private cars with motorbikes; or replacing motorbikes with mass transit vehicles; or the digital city and restricted mobility; or dedicated public transport lanes on motorways.
A series of interviews with decision-makers
Big-city decision-makers, such as Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, and Jean-Paul Huchon, Chairman of the Île-de-France Region, have given concrete examples of a mobility project that they have supported, despite controversy, based around the question: “What drove you?”
Multimedia products
During the conference, people will be able to access all the research on multimedia terminals (the collaborative platform movemaking.com, a document web), and also make their own contributions by recording their views or contributing to the discussion forum.
Scientific directors of the conference
Scientific director: Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, Professor at the Paris Institute of Urban Planning (Paris-East University Créteil), Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the City on the Move Institute (IVM), member of the Scientific Committee of La Fabrique de la Cité
Mireille Apel-Muller, Chief Executive of the City on the Move Institute (IVM)
Isabel Arteaga, architect, Professor at University los Andes in Bogotá, member of the IVM Chair-Latin America
Juan Pablo Bocarejo, engineer, Professor at University los Andes in Bogotá, member of the IVM Chair-Latin America
Andres Borthagaray, Director of the IVM Chair-Latin America, Buenos Aires
Jean-François Doulet, Project Manager IVM-China, Lecturer at the Paris Institute of Urban Planning (University Paris-East Créteil)
Frédéric De Coninck, Professor and Director at the City and Environment Postgraduate School, Paris-East University
Mathieu Flonneau, historian, Lecturer at Paris University I
Rosanna Forray, architect, Professor at the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, member of the IVM Chair-Latin America
Isabelle Laudier, Head of the Caisse des dépôts Research Institute, Paris
Pierre Lannoy, sociologist, Professor at the METICES Urban Research Centre at the Free University of Brussels
Liu Jian, architect and urbanist, Professor at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing and member of the IVM-China academic chair
Fernando Lozada Islas, Professor at Ciudad Juarez University in Mexico
Carles Llop, architect, Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Design at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Nathalie Martin-Sorvillo, Director of Fabrique de la Cité, Paris
Alain Meyere, Director of the Mobility & Transport Department at the Île-de-France Institute of Development and Urban Planning
Pan Haixiao, engineer and Professor of Transportation Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai, and Director of IVM-China
Gaëlle Rony, Project Manager, PhD in Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain
José Viegas, engineer, Professor at the University Polytechnic of Lisbon, member of IVM’s Science and Strategy Council
Steering Committee :
Mireille Apel-Muller, Chief Executive of IVM
Frédéric de Coninck, Director of the City, Transport and Territories Postgraduate School at the Paris-East University Research Centre
Rémy Dorval, Chairman of Fabrique de la Cité
Alain Meyere, Director of the Mobility & Transport Department at the Île-de-France Institute of Development and Urban Planning
Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, Chairman of the Scientific and Strategy Council of the City on the Move Institute (IVM)
Members of the IVM China Academic Chair:
FENG Shiqing, architect, Professor, Hefei University of Science and Technology
WANG Shifu, architect and urban planner, Professor at South China University of Science and Technology, Director of the Urban Planning Department
NING Ho, engineer, Director of the Nanjing Institute of Urban Transport Planning
LU Huapu, engineer, Professor of Transportation Studies at Singhua University, Director of the Transportation Research Laboratory
GUO Licheng, Professor, University of the South East
XU Jiangang, geographer, Professor, Nanjing University, Geography Department
MAO Qizhi, architect and urban planner, Professor, Tsinghua University, Director of the School of Architecture
SHI Nan, Secretary of the Chinese Association of Urban Planners, editor-in-chief of the journals “China City Planning Review” and “Chengshi guihua”
WANG Shijun, sociologist, Professor at Tongji University
LIU Hui, landscape architect, Professor at Xi’an University of Architecture, Director of the Institute of Landscape Architecture
LIU Jian, urban planner, Professor at Tsinghua University
CHENG Yingfang, Lecturer in sociology, Huadong College, Shanghai
Members of the IVM Latin America Academic Chair:
Roberto Agosta, Argentina, civil engineer, Masters Degree in engineering from UCA (Berkeley)
Isabel Arteaga Arredondo, Columbia, architect and urban planner, Professor at University de los Andes de Bogota
Michael Cohen, USA, Director of the International Relations Program at New York New School and Head of the Latin America Observatory
Juan Carlos Dextre, Peru, engineer, Chairman of the Mobility Committee at Catholic University of Peru
Oscar Figueroa, Chile, transport specialist, Institute Of Urban and Territorial Studies, Catholic University of Chile
Rosanna Forray, Chile, architect and urban planner, Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Catholic University of Chile and at Louvain University
Alfredo Garay, Argentina, architect and urban planner, Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Buenos Aires University
Andrea Gutierrez, Argentina, Professor at the Faculty of Geography and Buenos Aires University and La Plata University
Paola Jirón, Chile, Housing Institute at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Catholic University of Chile
Bernardo Navarro Benítez, Mexico, Research Professor on Territorial Planning at Xochimilco Autonomous Metropolitan University
Margaret Pereyra, Brazil, Doctor of EHESS, architect and urban planner, Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marcos Rodrigues, Brazil, engineer, holder of a PhD From Cambridge University, Professor in the Department of Transport Studies at São Paulo University
Alicia Ziccardi, Mexico, sociologist, Research Professor at the Social Research Institute at the Autonomous National University of Mexico
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