TY - JOUR
T1 - Governance through storytelling and possible futures
T2 - Motorcycle-cab service planning in Mexico City
AU - Carrales, Juan Carlos Finck
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the periphery of Mexico City, the informal motorcycle cab service (MCS) has provided people with local mobility for the last twenty years, involving thousands of jobs. Through the last five years or so, a formalization of the MCS has been in process. This article discusses a governance-based participatory workshop supporting such a process of formalization. In the workshop, stakeholders from different social groups have shared their MCS experience, visions and aspirations. The starting point for the analysis is the storytelling coming from the workshops, ranging from problem definitions to common agreements. Through an interpretative approach, utopian possible futures and storytelling elements are elaborated. These created an outcome that influenced the formalization process of the MCS, promoting electric bike-cabs (‘ciclo-taxis’) that favor a formal and green guild of transport cooperatives.
AB - In the periphery of Mexico City, the informal motorcycle cab service (MCS) has provided people with local mobility for the last twenty years, involving thousands of jobs. Through the last five years or so, a formalization of the MCS has been in process. This article discusses a governance-based participatory workshop supporting such a process of formalization. In the workshop, stakeholders from different social groups have shared their MCS experience, visions and aspirations. The starting point for the analysis is the storytelling coming from the workshops, ranging from problem definitions to common agreements. Through an interpretative approach, utopian possible futures and storytelling elements are elaborated. These created an outcome that influenced the formalization process of the MCS, promoting electric bike-cabs (‘ciclo-taxis’) that favor a formal and green guild of transport cooperatives.
KW - Governance
KW - Participatory method
KW - Utopian possible futures
KW - Storytelling
KW - Transport planning
U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2022.2113045
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2022.2113045
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0964-0568
VL - 67
SP - 291
EP - 308
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
IS - 2
ER -