Lake Sagaris

La aplicación de políticas de "Calles Completas", originada en Estados Unidos en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, se ha generalizado en todo el mundo, extendiéndose incluso a las principales ciudades del Sur Global. Sin embargo, los retos que plantea la realidad del Norte Global difieren fuertemente de los presentes en los países en desarrollo. Este artículo se centra en el contexto latinoamericano, reflexionando sobre las lagunas que ha dejado su carácter colonizador y su implementación en la Región. Desde una perspectiva decolonial, estos vacíos se exploran a través de un estudio cualitativo que examina la visión de las calles desde la perspectiva de diferentes actores en dos comunas de Santiago de Chile. Se concluye que el conocimiento adquirido a partir de las experiencias y perspectivas de las comunidades locales es fundamental para planificar y diseñar Calles Completas para el Buen Vivir.

We examine to what extent Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) contributes to a successful participatory process and how context affects the tool’s role in both process and results. We tested a tool to visualize accessibility effects of transport projects, using it in participatory workshops related to a major bus corridor proposal in Santiago de Chile. We innovated in the tool itself, to visualize overcrowding effects as a way to include comfort issues. We found that the GIS encouraged a sincere and realistic conversation among participants. Perceptions of the project did not necessarily improve, but the tool did reduce polarization of opinions.

At the root of the multiple, diverse and multi-scalar challenges facing the living systems we call cities likes a single enormous knot: figuring out how to live together very differently, in light of climate crisis, pandemics, loss of biodiversity and other life-threatening conditions. Active transport has an important role to play in showing ways of living better with lower consumption, improving health and, in many contexts, social equality. This requires more attention to interdisciplinary methodologies, social movements and civil society, and the governance arrangements necessary to facilitate or at least permit significant social change.

In the mid-2000s, a brilliant team of planners, politicians and activists joined forces to turn the classical Spanish city of Seville into a cycling-friendly environment, an achievement that culmin...

As the world’s cities seek to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals approved by the UN in 2015, transport planning has increasingly focused on intermodal solutions, with many scholars and practitioners actively seeking to identify and implement sustainability measures that address transport “justice”, as well as mobility issues. This chapter summarizes the state of intermodality research and practice to date, including analysis from an equity and inclusion (social) perspective. From more advanced places (Copenhagen, the Netherlands), through to strong examples of transitioning cities (Seville, Santiago, Montreal), the aim is to examine progress and potential from the perspective of Geels’ governance framework, and Shove et al.’s theory of everyday practice, to consider intermodal integration as a high-potential response to numerous social aspirations. This analysis underlines the importance of considering institutional and governance factors, particularly in developing countries where challenges to democratization come to the fore.

An extensive literature examines the usefulness of “Safe Routes to Schools programs” to encourage active travel (walking and cycling) to school, thereby increasing physical activity with all its benefits for mental and physical health, mainly in the Global North. This article reports on an adaptation for vulnerable schools in several Chilean cities (2016-2019). This change of context transformed the program, which focused on gender, civic education, and rights as central to to a just, sustainable transport system. “Sustainable transport” is an ecology of modes that improves connections among walking, cycling and public transport. “Transport justice” becomes central in an unequal country such as Chile, focus on gender, civic education and rights. During the first experience in co-design, with students, they changed the name, rejecting “safe” and insisting on “bakan”, a Chilean term for “cool”. The results included changes in attitudes, skills and visions. The resulting program, Kool Routes, improves physical activity, but above all influences the social determinants of health. It has proven to be a relatively simple way of dealing with the complexity of the challenges inherent in achieving sustainable development goals for cities in the 21st century.