How Does Urban Public Transport Change Cities? Correlations between Past and Present Transport and Urban Planning Policies

2009/05/06 by Géraldine Pflieger, Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Pattaroni +1 · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Urbanization and City Planning #French Urban and Social Studies #Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration

paper · doi:10.1177/0042098009104572

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Abstract

Is it possible to discern correlations between past and present urban policies? Do path dependencies exist at the urban level? If so, how do they differ from other links between the past and present? A preview of the literature dealing with dependencies and urban change, a presentation of the research methodology and an examination of the historical archives of six European cities in France, Germany and Switzerland enable us to identify three features common to both past and present transport and urban planning policies—namely, contingency, reproduction and innovation.

Citations

• Path dependence in historical sociology
• Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics

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