Reorienting Urban Development? Structural Obstruction to New Urban Forms.

• Autores: Pierre Filion
• Localización: International journal of urban and regional research, ISSN 0309-1317, Vol. 34, Nº. 1, 2010, págs. 1-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There is a growing sense that the North American low-density and automobile-dependent urban form is unsustainable from the perspectives of quality of life, economics and the environment. Yet for all the calls for a transformation of development patterns, trends inherited from the post-second world war period die hard. This article employs structuration theory to generate a conceptual framework that identifies factors of structural stability and transformation. It then uses this framework to account for difficulties in achieving a transition to higher density and less automobile-dependent forms of development. The evidence originates from Toronto and points to an uncertain transition in urban development. The article closes with a consideration of society-wide implications of the difficulties in redirecting structural tendencies when an environmental crisis looms on the horizon.