Sustainable transitions for rural-urban regions. Future scenarios for regional TOD development

Public transport and Landscape of the Great Geneva. (Data from SITG; AGGLO-Commune du Grand Genève )

Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot  

Supervisor: Paola Viganò, Lab-U

Co-supervisor: Vincent Kaufmann, LaSur 

Starting date: September 2021 Defense date (expected): August 2023

Grant: EU Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions, ITN ( Innovative Trainning Network)
 
 

Abstract

Using a research by design approach, this project traces interactions between transport, urbanization, and landscape structures in rural-urban regions. Locating potential and understanding contradiction for improvement and sustainable transition, scenarios are developed offering tailor-made strategies fully rooted in rural-urban contexts. 

The scenarios give a range of futures: from small landscape alterations improving ‘walking continuities’ to public transport structuring capacity in extended urbanization, to no-car multimodal scenarios questioning the TOD model within the RURs’ context. Scenarios aim to  development new territorial figures going beyond radial-concentric hierarchical one. The cases examined are the RURs of Switzerland (in particular the Grand Genève) in comparison to Flanders’ model. 

 

Key words: TOD – Urbanization – mobility – Landscape – Transition