Freiburg: From ‘Auto-City’ to ‘City of Short Distances’ (1945–2010)

Gerardo Marletto, Simone Franceschini, Chiara Ortolani and Cécile Sillig
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Simone Franceschini: University of Sassari
Chiara Ortolani: University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Cécile Sillig: University of Genova

Chapter Chapter 5 in Mapping Sustainability Transitions, 2016, pp 55-66 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we analyse the sustainability transition pathway that made Freiburg an ‘Eco-city’ where the modal share of slow mobility is more than 50 % (pedestrians: 24 %; cycling: 28 %), and the car is less relevant (30 %). Through the sequential use of three ST-maps we are able to reconstruct the sustainability transition of Freiburg: from an emerging ‘Auto-city’, where private cars increase of importance (first ST-map: 1969), through a time of coexistence of four different systems (individual car, public transport, individual bicycle, walkability) (second ST-map: 1979), until the polarization in two systems: the individual car and the so-called ‘City of Short Distances’ (third ST-map: 2010). The reproduction of these two systems takes place at different scales: local actors support the ‘City of Short Distances’—which is today dominant in Freiburg—while national and international actors keep supporting the individual car.

Keywords: Freiburg; Car; Urban mobility; Network of innovators; Sustainability transition; Socio-technical map (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42274-9_5

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