Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices, and Possibilities

摘要

I live in a slowly gentrifying neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Scotland - of the sort that typifies many of the case studies in this book (Doucet, 2009). The main road to the city centre from the neighbourhood is currently being upgraded and there was a local campaign to get it redesigned in what this book, and readers based in North America, would call 'complete streets' style - wide pavements, segregated cycle lanes and vasdy reduced space for vehicular traffic, with speeds reduced to 2omph. The battle was lost, and non-segregated, advisory cycle lanes were installed which are now predominandy used as car-parking places for businesses on the road. Meanwhile, in the more affluent south of the city, an extensive segregated network of cycle paths is emerging. In the suburban south-west of the city, a non-affluent community I work with extensively has poor quality public realm and a streetscape designed in the 1960s which is hostile to pedestrians and cyclists.