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Unequal Spaces: Suburbs, Apartments, and Bicycles in a Global City.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Unequal Spaces: Suburbs, Apartments, and Bicycles in a Global City./
作者:	Ledsham, Gertrude Ellen.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
面頁冊數:	147 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-12B.
標題:	Urban planning. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28966502
ISBN:	9798834058076

Unequal Spaces: Suburbs, Apartments, and Bicycles in a Global City.
Ledsham, Gertrude Ellen.

Unequal Spaces: Suburbs, Apartments, and Bicycles in a Global City. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 147 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Planners promote utilitarian cycling and urban intensification to increase the health and sustainability of urban populations. North American planners and researchers focus on cycling supports in urban cores. There is little research on suburban cycling and virtually none on the relationship between cycling and housing type even though the relationship between cycling and population density is unclear. Yet, in the City of Toronto most people live in suburban neighbourhoods (68%) and 55% of Toronto's population also lives in apartment style housing. Sixty percent of trips <5km, a distance easily cycled in 20 minutes, originate in Toronto's inner-ring suburbs. To effectively combat the ills of automobiles, residents in suburban areas and apartment housing must be considered. My research addresses knowledge gaps related to these seemingly unrelated areas. My thinking is based in social practice theory. A scoping review of social practice theory and urban transport revealed how a new theoretical approach provides fresh strategies for change. Then, using data from an original survey of residents (n=215), principal component analysis and generalized structural equation modeling were used to develop a model of factors influencing utilitarian cycling by residents of a lower-income auto-oriented suburb. Results suggest, recreational cycling, access to bicycles, group rides, repairs, and ways to meet people who bike may be useful interventions in suburban communities. Finally, using trip data (n=223,232) from the Transportation Tomorrow Survey and controlling for 25 variables, multinomial logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between density, dwelling type and utilitarian cycling. In Toronto, dwelling type is almost as important as gender in determining who cycles. A trip originating from an apartment-based household was less than half as likely to be taken by bicycle as a similar trip originating in a house-based household in 2011 after controlling for all known variables of influence. This work points to new ways to increase sustainable travel in suburban areas and maximize its use in dense urban areas, both of which are necessary to mitigate climate change and build equitable access to healthy transportation options.

ISBN: 9798834058076Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122922
Urban planning.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Active transport

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