This article probes the duality of marginalisation yet omnipresence of walking in cities. Using innovation in traffic light technology in Stockholm as a case study, it seeks to understand the attempts to regulate and safeguard pedestrians in the first decade after the Second World War. The article argues that traffic lights and other technologies were part of experts’ efforts to make urban mobility “systemic”, linking streets with vehicles and road users with the aim to optimize traffic. In doing so, their approach to pedestrian control was ambiguous. On the one hand, experts wanted to fit pedestrians into the emerging city traffic system: make them predictable, while also seeing to their safety. On the other hand, their designs and corresponding legislation often accepted pedestrian sovereignty, and walking was not systemised in Stockholm during the period studied here.

本文探讨了边缘化和无所不在的城市行走的双重性。它以斯德哥尔摩交通信号灯技术的创新为案例研究，旨在了解第二次世界大战后的第一个十年中对行人进行监管和保护的尝试。文章认为，交通信号灯和其他技术是专家致力于使城市交通“系统化”的一部分，旨在将街道与车辆和道路使用者连接起来，以优化交通。在这样做时，他们对行人控制的方法是模棱两可的。一方面，专家们希望使行人适应新兴的城市交通系统：使行人可预测，同时也要注意行人的安全。另一方面，他们的设计和相应的立法通常接受行人的主权，