​THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY PLANS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSULTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN CITIES

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 23 - 30, 01.04.2019

Efthımıos Bakogıannıs Charalampos Kyrıakıdıs

Abstract

The strategy of a city that aims at promoting sustainable mobility policies is usually related to the global objective for environmental protection and the aesthetic objective for regeneration of the local urban environment. However, there is an extremely important dimension regarding the policies for sustainable mobility that has not yet been given the emphasis it deserves. This is the stimulation of the citizens’ interest in the community and the increase of their participation in local decisions, hence the strengthening of the local democracy in decision making. Dewey had pointed out, from 1927, that invasion and gradual destruction of local collectives and face-to-face communication was the immediate source of instability and indifference that already characterized the democratic American society. The inhabitants now choose areas that are away from the old dense and multifunctional neighborhoods, no longer accessible on foot from the city center and with no other land use than residences. Local stores within the neighborhood or the city center created a sense of unity and community to the citizens, by representing their own shops, they felt familiar and also created a daily social gathering, a component of their local identity. The big scale of urban development limits the person’s ability to participate, because the person is unable to get to know the whole of the urban space, while also she/ he is mostly unable to follow its evolution. Most cities that have achieved a high level participation in decision making regarding urban issues were small-sized cities. The topic of this paper is related to the specific research question on how sustainable mobility could contribute towards the building of a consultative democracy in cities

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