Lecturer in Human Geography, Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem, will be giving a seminar to transport planners and policy makers at the Stockholm Regional Planning Office on Friday 26th April.
In the seminar, the research findings from the recently concluded, EU-funded Contested Urbanism project, led by Dr Rock Rokem, will be presented. The research project developed space syntax methods, incorporating real data on street and public transport accessibility along with demographic data on residential location, to test theoretical and practical propositions on how access (or barriers to) walking and public transport can affect the potential for improving social and spatial segregation.
The latter analysis has been tested in Jerusalem and Stockholm, and provides initial assertions of the likely impact of transport planning on end-users from different ethnic and social backgrounds. This will be further explored at the seminar, demonstrating how public transport mobility and accessibility scenarios can impact strategic public transport policy decision-making in the Stockholm Region.
Dr Rock Rokem’s work emphasises how human geography research can impact strategic policy making and plays a core role in the delivery of the School’s BSc in Human Geography.