2018 Making space for hope, Gothenburg 10-14th July

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    Round Table on Low Carbon Infrastructure, AESOP Congress, 10–14 July 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden
    (Liverpool University Press, 2019) Mukhopadhyay, Chandrima; Ho, Chin Siong; Bonvino, Gualtiero; Blyth, Pascale
    The conference report presents the content of a round table on Retrofitting Cities with Low Carbon Public Transport Infrastructure organised at the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Congress, 10–14 July 2018, at Gothenburg, Sweden. The theme for the annual congress was ‘Making Space for Hope’, which could be interpreted as making spaces that are sustainable, inclusive and just in the long term, in the era of planetary urbanization and growing inequality. The four keynote speakers included Ananya Roy (UCLA, USA); John Law (Open University, UK); Ceyda Sungur (Istanbul University, Turkey) and finally Eyal Weizman (University of London, UK). The conference had a total of sixteen themes or tracks. ‘Mobilities’ and ‘Spatialities’ were two themes amongst those that attracted research on the transport sector and transit-oriented developments.1 The track on Mobilities focused on ‘making space and mobility for hope’.2 The Spatialities track explored how ‘spatial patterns of urban and regional development contribute to the making and unmaking of spaces for hope’.3 There were multiple sessions, including round tables and presentations on mobility and public transport scheduled under these two tracks. The discussions on accessibility, mobility, transit-oriented development, autonomous vehicles and self-driving buses were raised in many presentations, drawing examples from multiple contexts. There were interesting cases from various modes of public transport, including cable cars, in the context of Europe and in Latin America, addressing different socio-economic groups. The conference organisers also offered some mobile workshops, which included a tour of ‘Vastlanken – new infrastructure in perspective’.