My impression is that the theory behind urban policy mobilities is very well grounded and when reading a paper contributing to this literature stream the theoretical part usually appears to be very strong and important for the paper. Then again, I sometimes I feel that for scholars working on urban policy mobilities the methodology and the empirical research are less important than the theory. Does this observation make sense?
The most popular research methods seem to be expert interviews and document analysis but what I couldn’t find yet was some sort of guidelines on how to empirically study urban policy mobilities. It would be even better if there was an assessment framework for the analysis analysis of (urban) policy mobilities? I would be most grateful if somebody could recommend some specific literature on that.
This is true there is a big gap between theory and practice. The reason is that planning deals with a city that is a field of conflict, and relations between opposing groups change over time or technology changes.This is true there is a big gap between theory and practice. The reason is that planning deals with a city that is a field of conflict, and relations between opposing groups change over time or technology changes.
I think a reason might be that it is not that easy to grasp the "mobility" of policies… In most cases People study the Policy in their original context and then see how it was implemented and adapted in another context. But what you then Analyse is not the mobility itself, but the Arrival and the "Mutation" in another place. Following/tracing policies would probably require long-term (!), ethnographic Methods. Ot to shift the focus of analysis to the simultaneous transformation of policy models and the communal settings in which they intervene and through which they act.
Dear Wolfgang Haupt and Nanja Christina Nagorny-Koring ,
Here in Brazil, Costa (2008) created a Sustainable Urban Mobility Index (IMUS), which is a survey based on some areas, such as: accessibility, environmental aspects, social aspects, political systems, transport infrastructure, -Motorized, integrated planning, traffic and urban circulation, urban transport system. The document is in Portuguese, but for this we have Google Translate.
Regards,
Fábio Matos.
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