Urban renewal – a vehicle for spatial justice in the face of traffic safety problems?
Résumé
Traffic safety consists of various actions (like education or engineering) aimed at reducing accidents. The Urban Renewal Program funds projects to transform urban neighborhoods, thereby becoming a vehicle for greater spatial justice. Are engineering activities the vector of increased spatial justice even though inequalities in term of traffic safety exist? The objectives of this article are to demonstrate the existence of socio-spatial inequalities in terms of traffic safety and to examine the reduction of inequalities in urban renewal projects. Through an analysis of laws, projects and the words of local authorities, safety issues in urban renewal programs are analyzed. While security is incorporated implicitly in urban development, the increase of spatial justice in terms of safety is not maximized. Indeed, local authorities are not aware of the combination of accidentology factors and instead target behavior and delinquency. The lack of accident analyses and the lack of awareness of authorities and communities hinder the maximization of the increase in spatial justice.
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