The walkable city post-covid - Making sense of the urban walking experience during the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes or urban planning.: Making sense of the urban walking experience during the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes or urban planning.
Translated title
The walkable city post-covid - Making sense of the urban walking experience during the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes or urban planning.
Author
Ross, Marvin
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2021
Submitted on
2021-06-04
Pages
51
Abstract
This thesis examines what it was like to walk in Nørrebro, Copenhagen during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using 'mobilities in situ'—studying movement in its real-life context—and qualitative walk-along interviews in which the researcher accompanies participants on their routes, it explores walking from the walker’s perspective. It then applies sensemaking—how people interpret and give meaning to experiences—to assess whether social capital, understood as everyday trust, ties, and norms between people, improved or declined in relation to walking during the pandemic, using the 'mobilities in situ' vocabulary. The study finds that the walking situation changed mainly because people adjusted their behavior around interpersonal distance. No significant change in social capital was identified. The thesis concludes with six key lessons for the urban planning profession, drawn from the pandemic, to help improve the public realm in cities.
Dette speciale undersøger, hvordan det var at gå rundt i Nørrebro, København, under Covid-19-pandemien. Med udgangspunkt i 'mobilities in situ'—at studere mobilitet i den konkrete situation—gennemføres kvalitative gå-med-interviews, hvor forskeren følger deltagere på deres ruter, for at forstå gåturens oplevelse indefra. Dernæst anvendes meningsskabelse (sensemaking) til at vurdere, om den sociale kapital—hverdagens tillid, relationer og normer mellem mennesker—blev styrket eller svækket i forbindelse med at gå under pandemien, med udgangspunkt i 'mobilities in situ'. Undersøgelsen peger på, at gåsituationen ændrede sig, især fordi adfærden omkring mellemmenneskelig afstand ændrede sig. Der blev ikke fundet væsentlige ændringer i social kapital. Specialet afslutter med seks centrale læringer til byplanlægningen med afsæt i pandemien, som kan bruges til at forbedre byernes offentlige rum.
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