Abstract

What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hope to demonstrate how such an approach is fruitful for grappling with the legacies of rationalism and modernism in spatial planning, with a focus on the contemporary ideal of the 'compact city' as both phenomenon and normative impulse that has come to dominate discourses of urban design and urban planning in recent decades.(1)

Keywords

Leisure; urban planning; recreation; walking; running; cycling

Published in

Mobilities
2023, Volume: 18, number: 5, pages: 691-699
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS LTD

SLU Authors

• Qviström, Mattias

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

Nature experiences and health


Sustainable Development Goals

SDG11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable


UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography
Architecture


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2235088

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/123703