Conflicted Streets – Navigating conflicts over streets and urban space in the transition to the 15mC

While of critical importance to facilitate a transition to climate neutral cities, the 15mC concept is vague and complex. To realize
the potential of the 15mC concept to bring about change, there are many potential conflicts between stakeholders representing
different interests and perspectives. Essentially, the 15mC concept highlight conflicts between spaces of flows (enabling local and
regional mobility, but also including space currently used for parked vehicles), and spaces of place (emphasising urban qualities
that make people want to live in such places). Therefore, conflict over the use of space is a key issue that has to be addressed in
planning for the 15mC. In many cases, such conflicts cannot be solved in consensus oriented approaches to planning and decision
making. A key goal for this project is to learn and build knowledge on planning practices and processes acknowledging the political
and contested nature of such processes of change. This proposal is an important step in building knowledge about what generates
conflicts in plans for the 15mC, and developing guidance on how to deal with such conflicts.