katja leyendecker - rgs midterm// sheffield march 2015
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encourage, encourage, encourage
approaching city cycling enabling environments
Katja Leyendecker PhD candidate
Northumbria University, Newcastle
Quick intro
My own background and motivation
WHY
HOW
WHAT
UK cycling constituency Future: Indicators / canaries for cycling environment are women cyclists
Source: Pucher & Buehler (2012) Red: Census 2011 overlay
UK cycling constituency
Census 2011
UK cycling constituency From the message boards
Fiona Spotswood et al (2015)
Despite significant national and local efforts over the last decade to stimulate uptake of cycling in the UK, levels of cycling (particularly utility cycling) remain at around 2% of journeys
Jan Garrard If you want to know if an urban environment supports cycling, you can forget about all the detailed ‘bikeability indexes’—just measure the proportion of cyclists who are female Source Scientific American 2009
Does the canary sing? Listen to concerns of the Not-yet cycling constituency – Pooley et al (2011) Cycling potential / interested-but-concerned – Monsere, Dill et al (2014)
Does the canary sing? Women’s needs / gendered needs
• more trips • trip-chaining • shorter distances • complex • safety / security
Walking as well as cycling: wellbeing, quality of life, liveable cities, streets for all, complete streets, social / space fairness, environmental justice
Does the canary sing? Women’s needs / gendered needs
• more trips • trip-chaining • shorter distances • complex • safety / security
Walking as well as cycling: wellbeing, quality of life, liveable cities, streets for all, complete streets, social / space fairness, environmental justice
Does the canary sing? Women’s needs / gendered needs
• more trips • trip-chaining • shorter distances • complex • safety / security
Walking as well as cycling: wellbeing, quality of life, liveable cities, streets for all, complete streets, social / space fairness, environmental justice
Does the canary sing?
Monsere, Dill et al (2014)
Does the canary sing?
Monsere, Dill et al (2014)
Urban space
Philippe Crist (2013) presentation at Go Dutch conference in Newcastle http://newcycling.org/lcgd-crist-video-and-slides/ pp35
My research (early days) Literature gaps
1. Relating gender (inequality) to movement spaces (cycleways as an equaliser)
2. Inter-disciplinary planning-engineering links (psychological methods to get common sense breathed into ‘contested urban space’)
3. Observing and charting the transport transition processes (modal shift) – longitudinal look
Research slant Make gendered / women’s voices heard to inform planning and engineering of urban space and cycle infrastructure
Thanks for listening
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