Conflicted Streets – Navigating conflicts over streets and urban space in the transition to the 15mC
The ”15-minute city” (15mC) is a planning concept focused on providing urban residents with access to everything they need—education, work, nature, entertainment, food, and more—within a 15-minute walk or bike ride. 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 representingdifferent 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 qualitiesthat make people want to live in such places). Therefore, conflict over the use of space is a key issue that has to be addressed inplanning for the 15mC. In many cases, such conflicts cannot be solved in consensus oriented approaches to planning and decisionmaking.
A key goal for this project is to learn and build knowledge on planning practices and processes acknowledging the politicaland contested nature of such processes of change. This proposal is an important step in building knowledge about what generatesconflicts in plans for the 15mC, and developing guidance on how to deal with such conflicts.