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How Does Urban Public Transport Change Cities? Correlations between Past and Present Transport and Urban Planning Policies

Geraldine Pflieger

Institut d'études politiques et internationales (IEPI), Université de Lausanne, Bâtiment Vidy, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, geraldine.pflieger{at}unil.ch

Vincent Kaufmann

Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine (LaSUR), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL-LASUR, Station 16, Bâtiment Polyvalent, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, vincent.kaufmann{at}epfl.ch

Luca Pattaroni

Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine (LaSUR), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL-LASUR, Station 16, Bâtiment Polyvalent, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, luca.pattaroni{at}epfl.ch

Christophe Jemelin

Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine (LaSUR), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL-LASUR, Station 16, Bâtiment Polyvalent, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, christophe.jemelin{at}epfl.ch

Is it possible to discern correlations between past and present urban policies? Do path dependencies exist at the urban level? If so, how do they differ from other links between the past and present? A preview of the literature dealing with dependencies and urban change, a presentation of the research methodology and an examination of the historical archives of six European cities in France, Germany and Switzerland enable us to identify three features common to both past and present transport and urban planning policies—namely, contingency, reproduction and innovation.

Urban Studies, Vol. 46, No. 7, 1421-1437 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009104572
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