To browse Academia. How is the future of automobility imagined today? What has structured such imaginary? And what levers can steer its evolution towards a Post-Car World? These very three questions form the foundational motivations of this thesis. First, through a historical overview, I explore and analyze a selected corpus of verbal and visual discourses that have contributed to how we think of car, how we think of a transition from it, and interrelatedly how it is placed in our cities.
An oppositional relation against walking seems to majorly explain the changing position of car. The comfort, speed, and privacy of car have been put against the effort, slowness and sociability of walking.
By tracing the shifting values of these qualities, I detect and depict the evolution of car-pedestrian imaginaries. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Phillip Vannini, ed. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up.
Second, two series of encounters with urban actors—urban experts and inhabitants— were conducted. The transversal analysis of the interviews, using the theory-generating methodology Bogner and Menz , results in a set of extracted themes, common threads, visionary strategies, as well as contextualized tools. The analysis of the transcribed discussions revealed some of the salient motivations and impediments towards a post-car world.
Third, I propose three conceptual axes along which the questions of post-car mobility, are reformulated. I present each axis in extent, situate them within the context of their emergence, and argue for their relevance and potentials.
