Conflictedstreets - Navigating conflicts over streets and urban space in the transition to the 15mC

Purpose and goal:

To realize the potential of the 15mC concept to facilitate a transition to climate neutral cities involves conflicts between stakeholders with different interests and perspectives. This includes conflicts between spaces of mobility (enabling local and regional mobility, but also space currently used for parked vehicles), and spaces of place (emphasising urban qualities making people want to live in such places).

The goal of this project is to learn and build knowledge on planning practices and processes acknowledging the political and contested nature of such processes of change. Expected results and effects:

The project will increase knowledge about what generates conflicts in plans for the 15mC, and develope guidance on how to deal with such conflicts. The results will help urban planners and decision makers by generating new knowledge on conflicts arising from implementing changes for the 15mC. Such knowledge can contribute to produce more robust, adaptive strategies to implementation, and improve chances that the implemented changes actually lead to desired outcomes (in terms of lively and vibrant neighbourhoods, and a use of street space that facilitates such conditions).

Approach and implementation:

The project is carried out by a transdisciplinary consortium of 13 partners in nine countries bringing together a unique blend of experience and expertise together this includes expertise on: parking policy, public transport planning, bicycle planning, green space, climate adaptation, public participation and protest in transport planning. The activities in the project is carried out in six work packages covering tasks such as: establishing a theoretical framework, mapping and analyzing conflicts, testing public participation processes in pilots, and evaluating results.