Cognitive agents and pedestrian-oriented redevelopment.

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• Creators:
  Perdue, Nicholas Adam
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Oregon ; Portland State University. National Institute for Transportation and Communities ; National Science Foundation (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Behavior Cities And Towns Motivation Pedestrians Urban Areas Walking
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NITC-D-975
• Resource Type:
  Dissertation
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Oregon
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Oregon
• Abstract:
  Walking is one of the most commonplace forms of human expressions, yet the
  
  forms, motivations, and practices of walking vary greatly and are often at odds with
  
  dominant discourses in urban and transportation planning. As interest in pedestrianoriented
  
  studies continues to grow, there is danger that dominant discourses will continue
  
  to reinforce the framing of pedestrians and the practices of walking as slower moving
  
  versions of the private automobile and ignore deeply embedded emotional, personal, and
  
  cognitive aspects. As such, understandings of pedestrian transportation and human
  
  agency during walking must be explored in increasingly human-centered terms in order
  
  to understand how changes to the material environment actually impact people and daily
  
  practices. The purpose of this dissertation is to give considerably more attention to the
  
  human elements of walking by creating a set of new theoretical and practical frameworks
  
  for deeper representations of the pedestrian in the urban space and within a larger
  
  transportation system. The three articles presented in this dissertation outline an
  
  alternative, human-centered representation of the pedestrian, providing theoretical,
  
  methodological, and practical solutions to conceptualize how soft variables such as
  
  emotion, motivation, and especially cognition influence the practices of walking.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:612bdd3dc75dae4bdef86b9d63aa0bf27e1e6926963b35eab8229d3f3bd4f809
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32145/dot_32145_DS1.pdf
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