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This study will do a comparative analysis of mobility transition pathways and practices in the city-districts of Dietenbach in Freiburg (Germany) and Zero Village Bergen (Norway) characterised by different territorially-bounded factors, e.g. planning policy framework, institutional arrangements and actor constellation. The research question is: if and how infrastructural artefacts and digital platforms are reshaping urban mobility practices in the smart cities of the future. To address this question, it combine insights from the literature on Smart Cities, Sociotechnical Transition and Social Practice Theory. As part of the analytical framework, it will study the co-evolution between different institutional elements (regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive) to enable individuals, organisations and government bodies in the case study areas to achieve a low-carbon mobility transition.
A qualitative case study is applied to analyse the phenomenon of sustainable mobility in the particular context of the case study areas. Miles and Huberman (1994:25) define a ‘case’ as “a phenomenon of some sort occurring in a bounded context”, and Yin (2009:18) defines a ‘case study’ as “an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon in depth and within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident”. Here, sustainable mobility is defined as the ‘main unit of analysis’ and the planning policy to create positive energy districts in Freiburg and Bergen as the ‘embedded unit of analysis’. Both units are studied within the socio-spatial context of Freiburg and Bergen and in relation to other infrastructure for land use planning, housing and digitalisation.
| I am willing and able to travel to Norway unless Covid-19 restrictions prevent me from traveling to Stavanger. | YES |
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| GDPR complianced | Yes |
