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  • Learning from informal gendered mobilities: Towards a holistic understanding for experimenting with city streets

Gera, Krity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9341-3124 and Hasdell, Peter, 2023, Journal Article, Learning from informal gendered mobilities: Towards a holistic understanding for experimenting with city streets Journal of Urban Mobility, 4. pp. 1-14. ISSN 2667-0917

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This paper argues that the right to access public spaces and streets is impacted not only because of automobility but also by socio-spatial factors of the urban environment. This paper presents insights towards a holistic understanding for street experiments (with a focus on stationary and slow travel modes) by highlighting the factors that impact the conditions of mobility and access through the lens of gender. By adopting a combination of new technologies, such as GPS, along with mobile methods, like ethnography, this research centres around the everyday travel experiences of urban marginalized women (UMW) from peri‑urban areas of New Delhi who contest their right to access public spaces on a day-to-day basis. This study examines the socio-spatial environment comprising the daily mobilities of UMW to reveal the conditions of mobility and access to public spaces. The findings highlight that the issues faced by these women while travelling, mainly guided by aspects of gender, act as barriers to their mobility and access to public spaces (streets) in urban informal conditions. The study also reveals elements of urban informality (socio-spatial elements) enhance as well as negatively on the daily mobilities of UMW. These socio-spatial factors were found to be interconnected to one another and thus cannot be implemented as individual or isolated factors. The results of the study support the proposal of a more inclusive and accessible public space.

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Subjects: Architecture > K400 Planning (Urban > K430 Planning studies
Architecture > K400 Planning (Urban > K440 Urban studies
Architecture > K400 Planning (Urban > K460 Transport Planning
Architecture > K400 Planning (Urban > K490 Planning (Urban
Other > Social studies > L300 Sociology > L320 Gender studies
Other > Social studies > L300 Sociology > L360 Socio-economics
Other > Social studies > L300 Sociology > L370 Social Theory
Other > Social studies > L600 Anthropology > L610 Social and Cultural Anthropology
Other > Social studies > L700 Human and Social Geography
Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies > W290 Design studies not elsewhere classified
School or Centre: School of Design
Identification Number or DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2023.100061
Uncontrolled Keywords: Socio-spatial mobility; Gendered mobilities; Urban informality; Street experiments; Right to access
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2023 14:55
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2023 14:55
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5537
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