This project deals with the hospitality of urban areas and urban spaces towards new forms of mobility related to the development of travel modes with low environmental impact (bicycles, pedelecs, electric scooters...). This development faces various obstacles: persistent safety problems, the inadequacy of the devices intended for these modes in the field of urban planning and design, the difficulties that the public sector has to adapt to the rapid changes related to the emergence of new technical objects and the increasing role of private operators. This project aims to better understand these obstacles and the means to overcome them, through field studies, in-depth analysis of accidents, in-depth user surveys (on their practices, needs and aspirations) and surveys of stakeholders involved in urban planning and design, within the framework of spatialized analyzes giving a large place to the specificities of the studied areas (the regions of Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg, and Lausanne). We hypothesize that these various obstacles reflect a gap between the actual development of the practices and needs of the users of this light individual mobility and the way in which public actors plan the territory. In this project, we will first focus on the individual actors moving towards light modes of transport with low environmental impact, on their practices, their representations, but also on their aspirations (workpackage 1). We will then look at the territory's potential for welcoming people, particularly in terms of public space, transport networks and systems, intermodality, spatial ergonomics and the accessibility of resources and different parts of the territory, in relation to the practices and aspirations of the inhabitants moving towards these modes of transport (workpackage 2). Finally, we are interested in the role that collective public actors can play in influencing this potential for reception, in the direction of a more hospitable urban area with regard to the practices, lifestyles, expectations and aspirations of these inhabitants, thus promoting the contribution of these forms of mobility to more sustainable development (workpackage 3). As regards the choice of study sites, the work carried out as part of the project will cover the urban areas of Aix-Marseille, Lyon and Strasbourg and the Lausanne conurbation. Working on the scale of these territories will not only make it possible to cover a wide variety of environments and developments, ranging from dense urban fabrics to suburban and peri-urban spaces, but also to question the reticular nature of the developments that are supposed to accommodate light individual mobility. Moreover, these areas have the particularity of not being at the same stage in the development of this mobility and in the way it is taken into account in the development of circulation spaces. The consortium formed is multidisciplinary. Indeed, this project mobilizes partners recognized in the analysis of mobility practices, travel activity and its accidentality (TS2-LMA, IGD, CEREMA), spatial dynamics and accessibility problems (IDEES-Caen and LIVE, which together developed the methods of spatial ergonomics), and the multiple dimensions of the action on the "urban factory" (LIEU). These different partners will be particularly involved in the implementation of the various workpackages and tasks.

Within the European city, the historic housing stock often comprises a compact, densely built-up area close to city centres. Due to its urbanistic and architectural qualities as well as the key socio-economic function it plays in the city’s housing market, this stock plays a considerable and important role in the identity of the European city. Although often formally recognised as such in planning policy, historic housing nevertheless is a tangible and intangible heritage, and for many communities is central to urban living. However, market pressure and climate adaptation and mitigation strategies proposed by city and national government threatens this cultural heritage. Long-term under-investment and disrepair of this housing has meant that making this stock more carbon neutral costly and technically challenging, and where such action has been taken - usually based in individual buildings - risks triggering commodification, gentrification and displacement pressures. As a consequence, demolition of this cultural heritage is a real risk face by European cities. The main intention of this project is to identify and evaluate how historic housing viewed as a valued element of cultural heritage can contribute to urban climate action, identifying both opportunities and good practices as well as social, economic and policy barriers. Our focus is on using existing formal and informal knowledge of this cultural heritage, including everyday practices of residents as well as strategies for climate adaptation and mitigation. Using a transnational approach, transdisciplinary expertise and local stakeholder insights, the project provides an analysis of the role of different actor constellations, regulations, and ownership structures of the housing stock in cities within four different urban contexts - Marseille, Vienna, Prague, and Glasgow – to create a toolkit (methodology) that comprises pan-European strategies and practices that assist in scaling up local strategies and practices for climate change mitigation for historic housing stock.