Project: Joining Urban morphology, Spatio-Temporal and socio-cognitive accessibility for an Inclusive City Environment
| Acronym | JUSTICE (Reference Number: 99950054) |
| Duration | 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2023 |
| Project Topic | This project aims at revisiting intra-urban accessibility issues through bridging two research fields that have mostly ignored each other. On the one hand, social and spatial sciences (including sociology, anthropology, land planning and urban studies) have extensively discussed the fact concrete mobilities (and thus access to the city) can be limited by social, physical, and socio-cognitive inequalities in a context where public spaces, public transport systems and buildings are not designed to be fully inclusive (see Ellis et al., 2019). These constraints arguably reinforce the intrinsically uneven nature of accessibility across places and time. On the other hand, quantitative research in geography has measured and modelled accessibility patterns that ignore the aforementioned inequalities, implicitly supposing that accessibility is inclusive. In contrast, the JUSTICE project will rely on the very idea that accessibility is genuinely not the same for everyone. Modelling exercises will thus be multiplied and refined for four specific audiences suffering from travel constraints and urban design: disabled, blind and visually impaired, elderly and socially underprivileged people. Importantly, how social inequalities and impairments affect accessibility will be captured from involving the concerned persons as well as stakeholders. All this will make it possible to set up inclusive accessibility policies. |
| Network | EN-UAC |
| Call | 1st EN-AUC Joint Cofund Call |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement - UMR CNRS 7362 | Coordinator | France |
| 2 | Unité de Recherche "Sport et Sciences Sociales" | Partner | France |
| 3 | UC Louvain - CREAT | Partner | Belgium |
| 4 | Université Libre de Bruxelles - IGEAT | Partner | Belgium |
| 5 | STIB - MIVB | Partner | Belgium |
| 6 | Collectif Accessibilité Wallonie Bruxelles | Partner | Belgium |
| 7 | Konya Metropolitan Municipality | Partner | Türkiye |
| 8 | Necmetin Erbakan Universitesi | Partner | Türkiye |