A Shared Belonging: Designing for Equitable Micromobility in Portland, Oregon
| dc.contributor.author | Six, Hannah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-19T01:11:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-19T01:11:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-06-18 | |
| dc.description | 178 pages. Examining committee chair: Liska Chan | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Portland Oregon’s Forest Park— one of the largest urban forests in the United States—usership is in a state of inequitable distribution, disproportionately allocating “the benefits and burdens of [urban] growth and change”.1 Geospatial and economic transportation barriers in access to amenities exist with a disproportionate impact on residents of color. The embedded structural and institutional impacts of inequity influence an individual’s transportation environment and access to amenities. The urban transportation system is in a state of innovation and change. Shared micromobility has quickly become a part of American cities, bringing opportunities and challenges to an equitable future. The introduction of micromobility, on America’s caroriented streets create a tension between the benefits of increased equity and burdens of poor network safety. The disproportionate burden of poorly designed, caroriented streets are majority bared by low-income residents of color. This research conceives of design interventions to relieve the tension between safety and equity to procure the opportunity for emergent forms of micromobility to exist. Providing space in the right-of-way to encourage equitable and carbon reducing forms of transportation can play a critical role in allocating open space resources for vulnerable, historically left out residents. This project examines the opportunity for shared micromobility to bridge Forest Parks access gap. Shared micromobility has vast equitable potential to strengthen connections between economic centers of opportunity, amenities and vulnerable residents. Aside clear potential, the risk of othering and perpetuating historic and contemporary inequalities exists. john a. powell’s conceptual framework, targeted universalism and belonging propel this project to consider interventions that aim to disrupt and dissolve structures of exclusion. This project uses mapping to understand the barriers of micromobility, amenity distribution and bike infrastructure. Politically and economically vulnerable communities are identified and overlaid with the geographic extent of micromobility trips informing a proposal for a protected route—Forest Lane. Forest Lane is a micro-modal transit route that serves historically and currently marginalized communities to belong and exist in Portland with access to Portland’s beloved Forest Park. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/24647 | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Landscape Architecture Program, M.S.; | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Equity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Belonging | en_US |
| dc.subject | Micromobility | en_US |
| dc.subject | Bike-share | en_US |
| dc.subject | Portland (Or.) | en_US |
| dc.subject | E-scooters | en_US |
| dc.subject | Targeted universalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Forested-open-space | en_US |
| dc.subject | Transportation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Forest Park, Portland, Oregon | en_US |
| dc.title | A Shared Belonging: Designing for Equitable Micromobility in Portland, Oregon | en_US |
| dc.type | Terminal Project | en_US |