Uneven mobility : injustice in accessibility and urban experimentation

We all transport ourselves from place to place to live life in this connected world. Academics call the ease by which we can do so accessibility. Yet, the uneven distribution of accessibility, particularly the immobility of the disadvantaged, continues to be a profound injustice. A long history of automobile-oriented and engineering-focused transportation planning has been dominated by powerful political and economic actors to continue to perpetuate this status quo. Taking accessibility as the major outcome of interest, this thesis charts underrecognized routes to realizing more just outcomes in two parts. The first part explores the possibilities of new representations of space in changing a discourse. It does this through creating a collaborative accessibility tool (https://accessmichigan.mit.edu/) using the latest mapping and web development libraries, with iterative feedback confirming the potential of the idea.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Shen, Kevin X.(Kevin Xu)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Elisabeth B. Reynolds.

• Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
• Technology and Policy Program.
• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130790

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/130790