Assessing the Polarising Impacts of Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods: A Community Perspective from Birmingham, UK
Isabelle Whelan, Carlo Luiu, Francis D. Pope · 2024
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Isabelle Whelan, Carlo Luiu, and Francis Pope study a low-traffic neighborhood in Birmingham in a 2024 paper. The Kings Heath scheme calms streets to cut air pollution and invite walking and cycling. The team paired air monitors with a survey of two hundred ten residents. Transport is a top source of city nitrogen oxides and particles, so stakes are real.
After the scheme began, active travel rose and pollution fell. The area still breached World Health Organization guidelines from 2021, though. Residents split sharply over the scheme: praise and resentment divided the community, and benefits were felt unevenly across streets. The authors stress three needs for future schemes: solid baseline data, long community engagement, and ties to wider city planning. A technically sound scheme, they warn, can still fracture the place it serves.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Isabelle Whelan, Carlo Luiu, Francis D. Pope |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |