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Walkability and the Right to the city: A snapshot critique of pedestrian space in Maputo, Mozambique
Research in Transportation Economics ( IF 2.904 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 , DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2021.101049
Suzanna Allen Massingue , Daniel Oviedo

On the premise of transport inequality, urban mobility and the production of pedestrian space, this research explores pedestrians (im)mobility in Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, as a means of unravelling deeper-rooted issues of societal inequality. Borrowing from the Right to the City (RTTC), walking is repositioned as a potential ‘equalising mode’, reflecting on the social, physical and individual drivers of inequalities for walking in the city. Such analysis responds to existing gaps in a literature about walking that has little to offer about its links with social and economic inequalities in the global South. The paper builds on 22 semi-structured interviews and a journey audit exercise to discover that whilst the unfavourable pedestrian infrastructure makes walking difficult, the social stigmas of this space have a greater impact on people's perceptions of walkability. As such, low-income identities are more likely to walk, frequently in parts of the city where walking infrastructure is minimal (if at all), and may therefore find it more difficult to exercise their RTTC than their high-income counterparts. To challenge the status quo, this study concludes that more ‘hubs’ of opportunity must be created to make walking more equitable in addition to improving the most urgent infrastructural shortages.



中文翻译:

步行性和城市权:莫桑比克马普托对步行空间的简要评论

在交通不平等,城市流动性和行人空间产生的前提下,本研究探索了莫桑比克首都马普托的行人通行能力,作为解决根深蒂固的社会不平等问题的一种手段。步行是从城市权利(RTTC)借来的,它被重新定位为一种潜在的“均等化模式”,反映了城市中步行不平等的社会,身体和个人驱动因素。这种分析弥补了现有文献中关于步行的差距,而该差距与其在全球南方的社会和经济不平等之间的联系鲜有提供。该文件以22个半结构化访谈和一次旅行审核练习为基础,发现尽管不利的行人基础设施使步行变得困难,这个空间的社会烙印对人们的步行感产生了更大的影响。因此,低收入人群更容易走路,经常在城市中步行基础设施最少(如果有的话)的部分地区行走,因此,与高收入人群相比,行使RTTC的难度更大。为了挑战现状,该研究得出的结论是,除了改善最紧急的基础设施短缺之外,还必须创造更多的机会来使步行更加公平。

更新日期:2021-04-29
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