Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: For urban transportation planners these are challenging times.Mounting practical concerns are mirrored by more fundamental critiques.The latter come together in the observation that conventional approaches do not adequately account for the irreducible uncertainty of future developments.The central aim of this paper is to explore if and how an evolutionary approach can help overcome this limit.Two core-hypotheses are formulated.The first is that the urban transportation system behaves in an evolutionary fashion.The second hypothesis is that because of this, urban transportation planning needs also to focus on enhancing the resilience and adaptability of the system.Changes in transport and land use development patterns and policies and in the broader context in the post-war period in the Amsterdam region are analysed in order to illustrate the two core-hypotheses.In the conclusions more general implications are drawn.
DOI: 10.1068/a38350
Author: Luca Bertolini
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1553858763