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behaviour community severance community severance skip to content home the author what is community severance tag archives behaviour august 28 2015 9 24 pm rescuing interesting research from obscurity some of the most interesting work on the effects of busy roads on local communities is found in very old studies that now lay forgotten in the archives of national libraries and are not available online the report of a lassière 1976 for the uk department of the environment is a good example a shorter version appears in lee and tagg 1976 the hypothesis is that people adapt their perceptions about their neighbourhood and change their walking behaviour and social life as a response to the presence of motorways this process is influenced by characteristics like age and length of residence in the affected area 960 residents in five sites in london near motorways and in two control sites near quiet roads were asked to map their walking trips and social contacts to identify the area they considered to be their neighbourhood and to sort pack of cards with the name of local landmarks into three groups those within their personal neighbourhood those outside it and those they did not know the author then calculated these variables 1 size adjustment area of the personal neighbourhood number of points inside the neighbourhood and number of points known 2 shifting displacement of the neighbourhood centre away from the motorway 3 bridging proportion of neighbourhood lines points in the neighbourhood and points known that are located on the other side of the motorway 4 behaviour proportion of walking trips and social contacts across the motorway the analysis of these variables was disaggregated by distance from the main road age of motorway existence and distance to pedestrian crossings and individual characteristics in comparison the famous study by appleyard and lintell in san francisco looked only at some of variables in groups 3 and 4 and disaggregated results only by traffic levels i will show only a small sample of the study s 59 figures as expected the presence of motorways leads to bridging as evident in the figure below which compares personal neighbourhoods near a motorway and in a control site the bridging effect decreases with distance from the motorway and with the age of this motorway the difference between sites near very old motorways and other sites is evidence even in locations 800m away from the road there is also more bridging behaviour in locations near a pedestrian crossing other results reject the hypothesis that motorways disrupt local communities for example the charts below show no evidence of neighbourhood size adjustment measured here by the number of points included in personal neighbourhoods or displacement away from the motorway despite the mixed results the study proposes a set of interesting indicators to assess the local effects of large roads references lassière a 1976 the environmental evaluation of transport plans report to the uk department of environment lee t and tagg s 1976 the social severance effects of major urban roads in p stringer and h wenzel eds transportation planning for a better environment plenum press new york pp 267 281 leave a comment filed under research tagged as behaviour motorways perceptions social aspects recent posts turbo urbanism in pristina rescuing interesting research from obscurity tirana 5 what do we see when we walk tirana 4 the spatial and social dimensions of walking tirana 3 redistributing road space archives december 2015 1 august 2015 1 may 2015 3 march 2015 1 february 2015 1 april 2014 1 march 2014 1 january 2014 1 december 2013 7 november 2013 2 september 2013 9 categories activism 4 art 2 policy 19 research 4 uncategorized 1 my other blog alternative environmentalism tags albania attitudes towards walking cape verde community environmental justice equity footbridges pedestrian accident risk pedestrian crossing pedestrian safety praia resilience road design road space safety spatial justice tirana underpasses urban growth urban planning follow community severance on wordpress com community severance the separation of communities by transport infrastructure and traffic create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed community severance sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy community severance subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started