Article ID: CBB928781870

(Re-) claiming urban streets: The conflicting (auto)mobilities of cycling and driving in Berlin and New York (December 2020)

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Annika Levels (Author)


The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 41
Issue: 3
Pages: 381-401


Publication Date: December 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Urban Automobility in Cold War Berlin
Language: English

In the course of the twentieth century, planners have transformed cities by creating an “automobile urban fabric” and increasingly produced urban streets as spaces of “automobile inclusion”, ordered by a seemingly rational “traffic logic”. Streets have been primarily coded as a space for cars while excluding other traffic modes such as cyclists or pedestrians as well as uses that are not connected to movement. It is this logic and street code that the contemporary ideal of sustainable urban mobility aims to transform: streets should be made for people and accommodate different modes of mobility to overcome cars’ supremacy. This paper takes current planning processes and developments in Berlin and New York as a starting point to explore cyclists’ interest in street space and how it has historically developed since the mid-nineteenth century. Thereby, it will show that the history of urban automobility and urban cycling are deeply intertwined.

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Authors & Contributors
Christoph Bernhardt
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia
D. N. M. Starkie
Winling, LaDale C.
William W. Buzbee
Dieterich-Ward, Allen
Concepts
Urban planning
Roads and highways
Automobiles
Cities and towns
Technology and society
Public policy
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
Lyon (France)
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