Discussion pedestrians

• Cultuurwetenschappen
• WO
• Studiejaar 3

Pedestrians

Relations with other actors

• Mostly 21st century studies
  
• The pedestrian as an actor in a competitive environment
  
• Urban planners as puppeteers
  
• Mostly with regard to industrialization and automibilisation
  
• Touches on (local) political history
  

Verlaan, T. (2019). 'Mobilization of the masses: Dutch planners, local politics, and the Threat of the Motor Age 1960-1980'. Journal of Urban History, 41(1).

Smilie, K. D. (2022). Patrolling and Controlling the Streets: The Origin of School Safety Patrols in New York City. Journal of Urban History

Staub, A. (2005). St. Petersburg’s Double Life: The Planners’ versus the People’s City. Journal of Urban History, 31(3), 334–354.

Tan, Z., & Xue, C. Q. L. (2016). The Evolution of an Urban Vision: The Multilevel Pedestrian Networks in Hong Kong, 1965–1997. Journal of Urban History, 42(4), 688–708.

Relations with other actors

• Mostly 21st century studies
  
• The pedestrian as an actor in a competitive environment
  
• Urban planners as puppeteers
  
• Mostly with regard to industrialization and automibilisation
  
• Touches on (local) political history
  

• Verlaan, T. (2019). 'Mobilization of the masses: Dutch planners, local politics, and the Threat of the Motor Age 1960-1980'. Journal of Urban History, 41(1).
  
• Smilie, K. D. (2022). Patrolling and Controlling the Streets: The Origin of School Safety Patrols in New York City. Journal of Urban History.
  
• Staub, A. (2005). St. Petersburg’s Double Life: The Planners’ versus the People’s City. Journal of Urban History, 31(3), 334–354.
  
• Tan, Z., & Xue, C. Q. L. (2016). The Evolution of an Urban Vision: The Multilevel Pedestrian Networks in Hong Kong, 1965–1997. Journal of Urban History, 42(4), 688–708.
  

Relations with other actors

• Mostly 21st century studies
  
• The pedestrian as an actor in a competitive environment
  
• Urban planners as puppeteers
  
• Mostly with regard to industrialization and automibilisation
  
• Touches on (local) political history
  

Verlaan, T. (2019). 'Mobilization of the masses: Dutch planners, local politics, and the Threat of the Motor Age 1960-1980'. Journal of Urban History, 41(1).

Smilie, K. D. (2022). Patrolling and Controlling the Streets: The Origin of School Safety Patrols in New York City. Journal of Urban History

Staub, A. (2005). St. Petersburg’s Double Life: The Planners’ versus the People’s City. Journal of Urban History, 31(3), 334–354.

Tan, Z., & Xue, C. Q. L. (2016). The Evolution of an Urban Vision: The Multilevel Pedestrian Networks in Hong Kong, 1965–1997. Journal of Urban History, 42(4), 688–708.

Down-up studies

• Same goes: lots of recent publications
  
• Focus on actual events on streets and sidewalks
  

      ==>Not from a planner’s point of view

• Lots of photographical research
  
• More room for cultural approaches
  
• Endless possibilities

• Lord, K. (2018). The Function of Commercial Streets in Montreal and Paris, 1853-1936. Journal of Urban History, 44(6), 1131–1153.
  
• Acerbi, P. (2014). “A Long Poem of Walking”: Flâneurs, Vendors, and Chronicles of Post-abolition Rio de Janeiro. Journal of Urban History, 40(1), 97–115.
  
• Rydén, G. (2013). Viewing and Walking: Swedish Visitors to Eighteenth-Century London. Journal of Urban History, 39(2), 255–274.

Relations with other actors

• Mostly 21st century studies
  
• The pedestrian as an actor in a competitive environment
  
• Urban planners as puppeteers
  
• Mostly with regard to industrialization and automibilisation
  
• Touches on (local) political history
  

Verlaan, T. (2019). 'Mobilization of the masses: Dutch planners, local politics, and the Threat of the Motor Age 1960-1980'. Journal of Urban History, 41(1).

Smilie, K. D. (2022). Patrolling and Controlling the Streets: The Origin of School Safety Patrols in New York City. Journal of Urban History

Staub, A. (2005). St. Petersburg’s Double Life: The Planners’ versus the People’s City. Journal of Urban History, 31(3), 334–354.

Tan, Z., & Xue, C. Q. L. (2016). The Evolution of an Urban Vision: The Multilevel Pedestrian Networks in Hong Kong, 1965–1997. Journal of Urban History, 42(4), 688–708.

Down-up studies (II)

• A more ‘comprehensive’ approach
  
• Connection between the people and the city
  

      ==>Individual ‘ties’ with places

• Role of the ‘classes’ in creation of city spaces

• Cochoy, F., Hagberg, J., Canu, R. (2015). 'The forgotten role of pedestrian transportation in urban life: Insights from a visual comparative archeology (Gothenburg and Toulouse, 1875-2011). Urban Studies, 51(12) 2267-2286.
• Walkowitz, J. (1998). 'Going public: Shopping, Street Harassment and Streetwalking in Late Victorian Britain'. Representations, 62, 1-30.
  
• Andersson, P. (2014). ‘Bustling, crowding, and pushing’: Pickpockets and the nineteenth-century street crowd. Urban History, 41(2), 291-310. doi:10.1017/S096392681300059X
  
• Solnit, R. (2000). Wanderlust: a history of walking. New York, Viking.

Discussion pedestrians

What topic(s) did you
identify in this article

Drag the research question here

Drag the sub questions here

How does the street as a gendered space appear in the photographs and what has this meant for practices and possibilities of walking?

Based on the analysis of the photographic sources, has walking as a mobility practice been gendered, how big has the role of gender been, and how has it changed during one hundred years?

How have changes in modal split and urban structure correlated with gender aspects of pedestrian mobility?

What implications does the historical analysis of urban walking as a gendered practice have for the present-day questions of accessibility, sustainability and equality in urban mobility?

What concepts (that we may have already discussed in class) would you apply in this article?

What insights have you
gained from this article?
Why is this article significant?

What research question or topic could you draft in which you would make use of this article?