The goal of the PostCarWorld research project is to explore the future of mobility through the role of the car. The basic idea is to define a hypothetical situation where the place of the car would have been dramatically reduced, and to use qualitative and quantitative simulation methods to examine the consequences of this initial hypothesis.
The sub-project C, led by Lab-U, focuses on the urban consequences of the complete abolition of individual cars.
What would happen to the countless square meters of roads and cubic meters of building now dedicated to traffic and to cars? What about the forms of territory have been shaped by the century of the car?
The case study is the Leman city territory, whose economic vitality depends on its attractiveness in terms of quality of life and job opportunities. If automobile traffic was a decisive factor for its development, it is now an obstacle, given the counterproductive effects of downturns and daily traffic jams
Inversion of the urban and functional paradigm is possible, and infrastructures (in the broadest sense of this term) that have supported networked social and urban practices, could contribute to establishing a spatial platform for cities where distance and proximity are once again key factors.
The city is considered as a palimpsest, resulting of both cumulative and selective processes. We developed historical analysis in cartography, statistical data and archive in order to reveal the relation between city and the car (from the end of XIXth century to present times) proper to Leman metropolitan area and to identify new potentials for its hypothetical PostCar evolution.
TEAM
TEAM
Team
Fonds national suisse (FNS) Sinergia (2014-2016)
Leader : Prof. Jacques Lévy, Chôros
Central Zone Coordination : Dr. Monique Ruzicka Rossier, Chôros
Sub-Project C « Configuring a Post Car World »
Leader : MER Elena Cogato Lanza, Lab-U
Reserch Assistant : Simon Berger, Lab-U
Phd Students : Farzaneh Bahrami, Lab-U
Matthew Skjonsberg, Lab-U
Focus Group « Urbanity »
Coordination : Dr. Monique Ruzicka Rossier and Jade Rudler, Phd student, Chôros
Teaching Unit « On the Road », 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
Teaching Staff : Elena Cogato Lanza, Farzaneh Bahrami, Simon Berger, Luca Pattaroni (Lasur), Matthew Skjonsberg.
Participants : Michel Bierlaire (Transp-or), Vincent Kaufmann (Lasur), Jacques Lévy, Riccardo Scarinci (Transp-or), Alexandre Rigal (CEAT), Monique Ruzicka Rossier, Jade Rudler.
