Planning for Sustainable Mobilities: Creating New Futures or Doing What Is Possible?

This chapter explores the perspective of how planners understand and conceive shared spaces in the context of a changing paradigm in urban planning in which stasis, structure, and social order have been transformed. Shared spaces are here interpreted as the ‘meetingness’ of mobility patterns and as a manifestation of the shift to a post-car era in which the complexity of urban movements, different mobility patterns, and contingent ordering are questioned. It concludes that shared spaces represent the metaphor of a new paradigm emerging in planning that enables multiple networked urban mobilities