Bottom-Up Strategies for Shared Mobility and Practices in Urban Housing to Improve Sustainable Planning

Jutta Deffner, Jan-Marc Joost, Manuela Weber and Immanuel Stiess
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Jutta Deffner: ISOE—Institute for Social-Ecological Research, 60486 Frankfurt, Germany
Jan-Marc Joost: ISOE—Institute for Social-Ecological Research, 60486 Frankfurt, Germany
Manuela Weber: Oeko-Institut e.V., 13189 Berlin, Germany
Immanuel Stiess: ISOE—Institute for Social-Ecological Research, 60486 Frankfurt, Germany

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: Recent years have seen the development of numerous innovations in social, constructional, and transportation planning for different forms of communal housing. They illustrate how more sustainable practices in transport and land use can be achieved through the collective provision and use of space and mobility services. The question remains, however, of who needs to be involved in such bottom-up approaches and when in order to ensure their success. What changes are necessary to anchor these approaches in the wider context of urban and transport planning? This paper presents three examples of neighbourhood mobility concepts and the collaborative use of space and land. A research project accompanied the development of these concepts in a real-world laboratory design. The scientists used social-empirical methods and secondary analyses to evaluate social and ecological effects, economic viability and the process of joint development. The results show the high sustainability potential of such neighbourhood concepts: they enable residents to meet their mobility needs, while using fewer vehicles through shared use, reducing the number of journeys and changing their choice of transport. At the same time, promoting and developing community services has been shown to be inhibited by preconditions such as existing planning law. Opportunities and obstacles have been identified and translated into recommendations for action, focusing on municipal urban planning, transport planning, and the housing industry.

Keywords: sustainable urban mobility; shared mobility; land use and accessibility; co-housing; integrated urban and transport planning; bottom-up planning; real-world laboratory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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