Complexing Urban Transport Space in the View of the Mobilities Paradigm
Abstract：
Transport space has long been taken as the primary research arena of transport engineering and urban planning. However, transport planning and design based on engineering rationality largely overlook spatial experiences and contextual factors that affect the quality of transport space. To broaden the research vision of transport space, promote the connection between transport space and everyday practice, and enhance the design resilience of transport space, scholars and practitioners should review the multiple meanings of urban transport space as a complex place. By reviewing the “mobilities paradigm” and studies involving transport space, this paper complexes the traditional conceptualisation by taking transport space as an urban spectacle, public domain, and political tool. Such multiplication contributes to broadening the current research scope of transport space, exploring contextual factors shaping transport space, and expanding the research methods of studying transport space. This paper encourages traditional research of transport space to pay more attention to the dynamic urban context and promote multi-isciplinary collaboration in studying transport space. Transport space has long been taken as the primary research arena of transport engineering and urban planning. However, transport planning and design based on engineering rationality largely overlook spatial experiences and contextual factors that affect the quality of transport space. To broaden the research vision of transport space, promote the connection between transport space and everyday practice, and enhance the design resilience of transport space, scholars and practitioners should review the multiple meanings of urban transport space as a complex place. By reviewing the “mobilities paradigm” and studies involving transport space, this paper complexes the traditional conceptualisation by taking transport space as an urban spectacle, public domain, and political tool. Such multiplication contributes to broadening the current research scope of transport space, exploring contextual factors shaping transport space, and expanding the research methods of studying transport space. This paper encourages traditional research of transport space to pay more attention to the dynamic urban context and promote multi-disciplinary collaboration in studying transport space.