Human rights to the street: Ethical frameworks to guide planning, design, and engineering decisions toward livability, equity, and justice

<p>Drawing broadly from the literature and from an examination of a comprehensive collection of these rights, this article works toward establishing a comprehensive ethical framework that can be used to guide planning, design and engineering decisions to support pedestrian rights for street and urban livability. To identify and propose these ethical principles and help achieve optimal livability for individuals, groups and society, the authors: (a) comprehensively examine the literature to clarify the various concepts of street livability and human rights to the street (as related to a collection of various pedestrian rights statements); (b) explore what is being said in these rights to better understand people’s needs and wants; and (c) provide a roadmap for planners, urban designers, and engineers to address these needs in practice. Building on the previous steps and incorporating business practice literature of Functional Area Ethics, relevant functional areas are identified to help professionals act in support of these pedestrian rights.

• Record URL:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1918
• Record URL:
  https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1918
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/19387849
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2021 Bruce Appleyard and William Riggs.
• Authors:
  • Appleyard, Bruce
  • Riggs, William
• Publication Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 911–931
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport and Land Use
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  • ISSN: 1938-7849
  • Serial URL: https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Civil rights; Equity; Pedestrians; Transportation planning; Urban design
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01786470
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 28 2021 9:14AM