Refers to the urban valence conferred by the daily use of public space, intuitively promoted by the community, which guarantees the humanization of the public space.
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Circumstance and Opportunity: “Pop-Up” Mobility in Pandemic Times – Two Case Studies in Braga
Miguel Sopas de Melo Bandeira (University of Minho, Portugal) and Filipa Assis Corais (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 38
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch009
Abstract
The pandemic has impacted several aspects of urban life in cities, from the elementary and essential daily living in the public space of its resident community to the collapse of tourism, which, until 2020, was in ascending progress in the case of Braga and which has repercussions on the entire economy. In this context, several cities took the opportunity to experiment with 'pop-up' measures (i.e., opportunity-based, rapidly implemented, low-cost, temporary, and experimental) to transform public space by allocating it to pedestrians and urban living. This chapter explores two experiences tested in Braga, during the pandemic, which, by their latent capacity of catalysis in other areas, glimpse and enhance a transformation in the mobility of the city in a future scenario.