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Journal article
Published: 12 July 2021 in Journal of Urban Affairs
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Antonio Ferreira. The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power, by Shoshana Zuboff. Journal of Urban Affairs 2021, 1 -3.

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Antonio Ferreira. The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power, by Shoshana Zuboff. Journal of Urban Affairs. 2021; ():1-3.

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Antonio Ferreira. 2021. "The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power, by Shoshana Zuboff." Journal of Urban Affairs , no. : 1-3.

Journal article
Published: 22 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Innovation has become a guiding principle for European Union policy. Funding schemes, research, and planning across all Member States are expected to be innovative. This article provides a critical analysis of the drivers and effects of this evolution. While positive results have been achieved due to innovation policies, this article proposes that taking a wider critical perspective reveals important caveats. The article zooms in on the EU’s innovation policies by analysing policy documents, projects funded, and on-the-ground impact on three citizen initiatives. The analysis asks whether and how the EU’s self-set goals of sustainability, social inclusion, and economic growth are approached and met in them. The findings suggest a problematic funnelling process. First, an emphasis on innovation is created with the objective of systematically unblocking resistance to the development and implementation of novelties in the name of competitiveness, job creation, and economic growth. Second, the idea of innovation is very loosely defined, while, when translated into urban planning, it is interpreted narrowly in terms of efficiency and behavioural change, digitalization, and smart technologies. As a result, (narrowly defined) innovation-led economic growth begins to supersede alternative values and visions for the future of European cities and regions. This can represent a problem for EU Member States as it creates a very limited, risk-based, and divisive direction of development. To contribute to the (re-)establishment of alternatives, this article finally offers policy recommendations primarily concerned with the reinstatement of the public interest beyond innovation-centred planning perspectives.

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Kim von Schönfeld; António Ferreira. Urban Planning and European Innovation Policy: Achieving Sustainability, Social Inclusion, and Economic Growth? Sustainability 2021, 13, 1137 .

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Kim von Schönfeld, António Ferreira. Urban Planning and European Innovation Policy: Achieving Sustainability, Social Inclusion, and Economic Growth? Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1137.

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Kim von Schönfeld; António Ferreira. 2021. "Urban Planning and European Innovation Policy: Achieving Sustainability, Social Inclusion, and Economic Growth?" Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1137.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2020 in Urban Science
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This article argues that a more critical approach to innovation policy within planning is needed and offers recommendations for achieving this. These recommendations entail rethinking the values, focus, speed, and legitimacy of innovations. It takes a critical perspective on how contemporary societies treat rapid innovation as having necessarily positive results in the achievement of objectives such as sustainability and justice. This critical perspective is needed because innovation can both contribute to and drive a form of maladaptive planning: a collective approach to reality that imposes constant and rapid changes to societal configurations due to an obsession with the new and with too little rapport with the problems in place or that it creates. A maladaptive direction for transport planning is used as a sectorial illustration of the broader conceptual ideas presented: for both sustainability and social justice reasons, it would be desirable to see peak car occurring. However, the car industry is presenting driving automation as an innovation with the potential to restore the vitality of the private vehicles market while creating effective means to dismiss alternatives to car dominance.

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António Ferreira; Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld; Wendy Tan; Enrica Papa. Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles. Urban Science 2020, 4, 41 .

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António Ferreira, Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld, Wendy Tan, Enrica Papa. Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles. Urban Science. 2020; 4 (3):41.

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António Ferreira; Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld; Wendy Tan; Enrica Papa. 2020. "Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles." Urban Science 4, no. 3: 41.

Journal article
Published: 28 August 2020 in Land Use Policy
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A variety of contemporary cities across the world are experimenting with innovative market-oriented planning instruments aimed at promoting urban regeneration processes. This research aims at offering a critical analysis of these innovations and how they are perceived by key stakeholders in Coimbra, Portugal, with special focus on Transferable Development Rights (TDR). Detailed insights are offered with the aim of critically exploring the levels of acceptability and applicability of TDR as a forthcoming planning innovation in this city vis-à-vis its planning culture and socio-spatial characteristics. The key conclusion is that the implementation of market-oriented instruments such as TDR is unlikely to represent a suitable strategy to promote urban regeneration in some contexts. Specifically, TDR may have limited efficacy in places characterised by modest levels of economic activity, technocratic legal systems, bureaucratic governance models, low social capital, and autocratic political leaderships – as is the case of Coimbra. Carefully crafted initiatives aimed at directly addressing the shortcomings of such traits while taking into account local features are likely to be more successful and transformative than the adoption of off-the-shelf market-oriented planning instruments.

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António Ferreira. Reconsidering the merit of market-oriented planning innovations: Critical insights on Transferable Development Rights from Coimbra, Portugal. Land Use Policy 2020, 99, 104977 .

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António Ferreira. Reconsidering the merit of market-oriented planning innovations: Critical insights on Transferable Development Rights from Coimbra, Portugal. Land Use Policy. 2020; 99 ():104977.

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António Ferreira. 2020. "Reconsidering the merit of market-oriented planning innovations: Critical insights on Transferable Development Rights from Coimbra, Portugal." Land Use Policy 99, no. : 104977.

Research article
Published: 13 July 2020 in Journal of Planning Education and Research
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This article presents the intellectual legacy of Clare Graves, an American professor of psychology, and its relevance for planning as an academic and professional field characterized by worldview diversity and, therefore, also by dilemmas and conflicts. The argument is structured by the sequential answers to four questions: how to determine the most appropriate worldview for a given planning situation; how to navigate in planning contexts characterized by worldview diversity; how to manage worldview-based conflicts; and how to educate planners for effectively dealing with worldview diversity. A discussion on planning ethics concludes the article.

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António Ferreira. Dilemmas, Conflicts, and Worldview Diversity: Exploring the Relevance of Clare Grave’s Legacy for Planning Practice and Education. Journal of Planning Education and Research 2020, 1 .

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António Ferreira. Dilemmas, Conflicts, and Worldview Diversity: Exploring the Relevance of Clare Grave’s Legacy for Planning Practice and Education. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 2020; ():1.

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António Ferreira. 2020. "Dilemmas, Conflicts, and Worldview Diversity: Exploring the Relevance of Clare Grave’s Legacy for Planning Practice and Education." Journal of Planning Education and Research , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 18 April 2020 in Case Studies on Transport Policy
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The benefits of the accessibility approach in transport planning are well-known and widely documented in the literature. However, in practice, most transport planning processes are focused on improving mobility and not on improving accessibility. Recent research has made it clear that what is blocking the accessibility approach are not the technological dimensions of transport planning, or the lack of knowledge about how to perform accessibility planning in practice. This approach is being blocked instead by institutional barriers. This article critically identifies some of these barriers. Adopting a cross-disciplinary and international perspective, two rounds of in-depth interviews with accessibility experts were conducted. This allowed gathering insights not only about the institutional barriers to the adoption of the accessibility approach in transport planning practice, but also about possible pathways to make accessibility a more central concept in decision-making.

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António Ferreira; Enrica Papa. Re-enacting the mobility versus accessibility debate: Moving towards collaborative synergies among experts. Case Studies on Transport Policy 2020, 8, 1002 -1009.

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António Ferreira, Enrica Papa. Re-enacting the mobility versus accessibility debate: Moving towards collaborative synergies among experts. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 2020; 8 (3):1002-1009.

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António Ferreira; Enrica Papa. 2020. "Re-enacting the mobility versus accessibility debate: Moving towards collaborative synergies among experts." Case Studies on Transport Policy 8, no. 3: 1002-1009.

Forum
Published: 02 January 2020 in disP - The Planning Review
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Due to the persistent pursuit of economic growth, contemporary Western societies are inducing an increasingly deep economic, environmental, and social Crisis. Planning has significantly contributed to the pursuit of growth and, as a consequence, urban areas have experienced a number of problematic transformations. The establishment of an alliance between planning and degrowth scholarship could contribute to address these issues. To clarify the potential outlines of this alliance, some of the key principles of both progrowth and degrowth scholarship are critically reviewed. Following this, insights are offered in particular for planners and planning academics wanting to promote the formation of this interdisciplinary alliance.

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António Ferreira; Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld. Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship. disP - The Planning Review 2020, 56, 53 -64.

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António Ferreira, Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld. Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship. disP - The Planning Review. 2020; 56 (1):53-64.

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António Ferreira; Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld. 2020. "Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship." disP - The Planning Review 56, no. 1: 53-64.

Articles
Published: 01 January 2020 in Planning Theory & Practice
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The problems faced by stakeholders in contemporary urban policy-making processes are becoming increasingly intricate and are emerging at an increasingly faster pace. Many of these problems are emerging as dilemmas between option A or option B. This article proposes that dilemmas can be addressed at three different levels of complexity. At the lowest level, stakeholders accept dilemmas without questioning their formulation, and assume that an either-or choice is required. They accept both the costs and the benefits of either option A or B while dismissing the benefits and costs of the discarded alternative. At a higher level of complexity, stakeholders manage to transcend the dilemma: they reconfigure the problem formulation and create a hitherto unforeseen solution that compounds the benefits of options A and B while rejecting the costs of both options. At the highest level of complexity, stakeholders purposefully look for several dilemmas to transcend in tandem while creating synergies throughout the process. In order to illustrate this argument, the article explores the case of Porto and considers two dilemmas in particular. The first is the envisioning versus adapting dilemma: should cities embrace a powerful vision for their future or adapt to emerging opportunities? The second is the growing versus stabilizing dilemma: should cities continuously pursue economic growth or aim to maintain an agreed-upon level of economic activity? The article offers empirical insights on both dilemmas as experienced in Porto and concludes with a reflection about the strategic relevance of addressing dilemmas at the highest level of complexity possible.

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António Ferreira; Joana Ribeiro-Santos; Isabel Breda-Vázquez. Transcending Dilemmas in Urban Policy-Making: Envisioning versus Adapting, Growing versus Stabilizing. Planning Theory & Practice 2020, 21, 76 -93.

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António Ferreira, Joana Ribeiro-Santos, Isabel Breda-Vázquez. Transcending Dilemmas in Urban Policy-Making: Envisioning versus Adapting, Growing versus Stabilizing. Planning Theory & Practice. 2020; 21 (1):76-93.

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António Ferreira; Joana Ribeiro-Santos; Isabel Breda-Vázquez. 2020. "Transcending Dilemmas in Urban Policy-Making: Envisioning versus Adapting, Growing versus Stabilizing." Planning Theory & Practice 21, no. 1: 76-93.

Articles
Published: 19 July 2018 in Planning Theory & Practice
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Planning is a divided profession. Perspectives diverge on fundamental themes as to which theories, methodologies, and goals for the future should be embraced. Even though this plurality of views is a sign of intellectual resourcefulness within the field, it is disconcerting the extent to which planning finds it difficult to articulate itself to effectively address persistent problems such as environmental degradation and social inequality. This paper proposes that the Wilberian philosophy can offer a valuable contribution in this regard, and particularly when integrated with the legacy of Niraj Verma. Examples from transport planning are used to illustrate the argument.

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António Ferreira. Towards an Integrative Perspective: Bringing Ken Wilber’s Philosophy to Planning Theory and Practice. Planning Theory & Practice 2018, 19, 558 -577.

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António Ferreira. Towards an Integrative Perspective: Bringing Ken Wilber’s Philosophy to Planning Theory and Practice. Planning Theory & Practice. 2018; 19 (4):558-577.

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António Ferreira. 2018. "Towards an Integrative Perspective: Bringing Ken Wilber’s Philosophy to Planning Theory and Practice." Planning Theory & Practice 19, no. 4: 558-577.

Chapter
Published: 14 July 2018 in Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning
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Transport planning became a techno-bureaucratic profession and this has important ramifications. The most important one for the argument developed here is that techno-bureaucratic transport planning is performed by physically inactive professionals. It presupposes that exclusively using technologies and processes that are disconnected from the subjective and bodily experience of the built environment in general and of mobility in particular is acceptable. It dismisses all forms of subjective and embodied knowledge and professional practices. As a result, it leads to transport projects and policies that promote physical inactivity and geographical mobility at the same time in a spiralling way—that is, immobile-mobility is expanding out of control. Techno-bureaucratic transport planning is, therefore, creating a world where people travel extensively but suffer from a serious lack of physical mobility and a resulting global health crisis. This chapter proposes that a new way of performing transport planning is therefore needed. This new way would ask from transport planners a much more embodied and inner engagement with their work. If embodied engagement is critical to understand a given reality or problem and to find ways to solve complex issues, it becomes then clear that transport planners need to become physically active individuals as much as they can, if they are to effectively promote active modes of transport and healthy built environments. A number of theoretical and conceptual ideas are provided to strike the right balance between objective/technical and subjective/embodied approaches in transport planning theory and practice.

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António Ferreira. (Un)healthy Bodies and the Transport Planning Profession: The (Im)mobile Social Construction of Reality and Its Consequences. Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning 2018, 325 -344.

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António Ferreira. (Un)healthy Bodies and the Transport Planning Profession: The (Im)mobile Social Construction of Reality and Its Consequences. Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning. 2018; ():325-344.

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António Ferreira. 2018. "(Un)healthy Bodies and the Transport Planning Profession: The (Im)mobile Social Construction of Reality and Its Consequences." Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning , no. : 325-344.

Journal article
Published: 12 January 2018 in Urban Science
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The emergence of fully Automated Vehicles (AVs) is expected to occur in the next 10 to 30 years. The uncertainties related to AVs pose a series of questions about what the societal consequences of such technology are. Mainly, what are the consequences of AVs regarding accessibility? This paper uses Geurs and Van Wee’s definition of accessibility to give an exploratory answer to this question. Using a scenario-based approach which allows identifying critical decisions that will emerge shortly (or are already emerging) concerning automated travelling, this paper proposes that AVs have great potential to both seriously aggravate and considerably alleviate accessibility problems. A great deal will depend on how these critical decisions will be approached and the choices that will be made. This debate is most needed because existing research on AVs tends to focus on how to make them a commercially viable and safe technological enterprise, and on what their benefits and drawbacks are regarding variables such as carbon emissions, energy consumption, and total miles travelled. Narratives of this nature can be problematic, as they are unlikely to promote sufficient awareness about the real disruptive potential of AVs. It is crucial that stakeholders realise the extent to which—if the governance of AVs implementation processes is not taken very seriously, and the identified critical decisions are not carefully approached—these machines can materialise a dystopian mobility future.

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Enrica Papa; António Ferreira. Sustainable Accessibility and the Implementation of Automated Vehicles: Identifying Critical Decisions. Urban Science 2018, 2, 5 .

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Enrica Papa, António Ferreira. Sustainable Accessibility and the Implementation of Automated Vehicles: Identifying Critical Decisions. Urban Science. 2018; 2 (1):5.

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Enrica Papa; António Ferreira. 2018. "Sustainable Accessibility and the Implementation of Automated Vehicles: Identifying Critical Decisions." Urban Science 2, no. 1: 5.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2017 in Transport Policy
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Marco Te Brömmelstroet; Morten Skou Nicolaisen; Benjamin Büttner; Antonio Ferreira. Experiences with transportation models: An international survey of planning practices. Transport Policy 2017, 58, 10 -18.

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Marco Te Brömmelstroet, Morten Skou Nicolaisen, Benjamin Büttner, Antonio Ferreira. Experiences with transportation models: An international survey of planning practices. Transport Policy. 2017; 58 ():10-18.

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Marco Te Brömmelstroet; Morten Skou Nicolaisen; Benjamin Büttner; Antonio Ferreira. 2017. "Experiences with transportation models: An international survey of planning practices." Transport Policy 58, no. : 10-18.

Journal article
Published: 02 January 2017 in Applied Mobilities
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Antonio Ferreira; Luca Bertolini; Petter Næss. Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research. Applied Mobilities 2017, 2, 16 -31.

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Antonio Ferreira, Luca Bertolini, Petter Næss. Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research. Applied Mobilities. 2017; 2 (1):16-31.

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Antonio Ferreira; Luca Bertolini; Petter Næss. 2017. "Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research." Applied Mobilities 2, no. 1: 16-31.

Conference paper
Published: 02 November 2016 in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction
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The purpose of this study was to critically analyse the role that positive emotions, flourishing and mindfulness have among the elderly. It was explored how these concepts can contribute to successful aging and higher levels of happiness in this population. To this end, we conducted a non-experimental correlational study with 329 participants, aged from 55 to 98 years. Questionnaires were used to collect data through the following instruments: a socio-demographic questionnaire, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) and PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), FS (Flourishing scale), PST (Positivity test), MHI-5 (Mental Health Inventory -- 5).

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Cristina Cruz; Esperanza Navarro-Pardo; Ricardo Pocinho; Antonio Ferreira. Happiness in advanced adulthood and the elderly. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction 2016, 411 -417.

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Cristina Cruz, Esperanza Navarro-Pardo, Ricardo Pocinho, Antonio Ferreira. Happiness in advanced adulthood and the elderly. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. 2016; ():411-417.

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Cristina Cruz; Esperanza Navarro-Pardo; Ricardo Pocinho; Antonio Ferreira. 2016. "Happiness in advanced adulthood and the elderly." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction , no. : 411-417.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2016 in Journal of Transport & Health
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The world is currently witnessing its largest surge of urban growth in human history; a trend that draws attention to the need to understand and address health impacts of urban living. Whilst transport is instrumental in this urbanisation wave, it also has significant positive and negative impacts on population health, which are disproportionately distributed. In this paper, we bring together expertise in transport engineering, transport and urban planning, research and strategic management, epidemiology and health impact assessment in an exercise to scope and discuss the health impacts of transport in urban areas. Adopting a cross-disciplinary, co-production approach, we explore the key driving forces behind the current state of urban mobility and outline recommendations for practices that could facilitate positioning health at the core of transport design, planning and policy. Current knowledge on the health-related impacts of urban transport shows that motor vehicle traffic is causing significant premature mortality and morbidity through motor vehicle crashes, physical inactivity and traffic-related environmental exposures including increases in air pollution, noise and temperature levels, as well as reductions in green space. Trends of rapid and car-centred urbanisation, mass motorisation and a tendency of policy to favour car mobility and undervalue health in the transport and development agenda has both led to, and exacerbated the negative health impacts of the transport systems. Simultaneously, we also argue that the benefits of new transport schemes on the economy are emphasised whilst the range and severity of identified health impacts associated with transport are often downplayed. We conclude the paper by outlining stakeholders’ recommendations for the adoption of a cross-disciplinary co-production approach that takes a health-aware perspective and has the potential to promote a paradigm shift in transport practices.

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Haneen Khreis; Karyn M. Warsow; Ersilia Verlinghieri; Alvaro Guzman; Luc Pellecuer; Antonio Ferreira; Ian Jones; Eva Heinen; David Rojas-Rueda; Natalie Mueller; Paul Schepers; Karen Lucas; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen. The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions. Journal of Transport & Health 2016, 3, 249 -267.

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Haneen Khreis, Karyn M. Warsow, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Alvaro Guzman, Luc Pellecuer, Antonio Ferreira, Ian Jones, Eva Heinen, David Rojas-Rueda, Natalie Mueller, Paul Schepers, Karen Lucas, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen. The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions. Journal of Transport & Health. 2016; 3 (3):249-267.

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Haneen Khreis; Karyn M. Warsow; Ersilia Verlinghieri; Alvaro Guzman; Luc Pellecuer; Antonio Ferreira; Ian Jones; Eva Heinen; David Rojas-Rueda; Natalie Mueller; Paul Schepers; Karen Lucas; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen. 2016. "The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions." Journal of Transport & Health 3, no. 3: 249-267.

Research article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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This paper investigates the relationship between cycling and mothers' mobility in Amsterdam. Considering that mothers (still) tend to be responsible for transporting children and doing so on a bicycle may increase the difficulties of travel, the city's push for cycling may not suit mothers' mobility needs. Hence, this research aimed to uncover whether mothers' physical levels and experience of mobility by bicycle are by any means inferior to childless women's in Amsterdam. Activity-travel data, collected among thirty-seven women living and working in Amsterdam, informed the results of this research. Throughout a space-time GIS analysis, mothers barely differed from childless women in their amount of and predilection for cycling: mothers generally did not consider the transport of their children on the bicycle as an exertion or safety issue, but rather as a practical means of transport and a pleasurable moment to bond with children. However, mothers and childless women often differed in their travel schedules and purposes, implying that mothers face specific mobility challenges, which evolve as children grow older.

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Amanda Eyer; Antonio Ferreira. Taking the Tyke on a Bike: Mothers' and Childless Women's Space-Time Geographies in Amsterdam Compared. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2015, 47, 691 -708.

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Amanda Eyer, Antonio Ferreira. Taking the Tyke on a Bike: Mothers' and Childless Women's Space-Time Geographies in Amsterdam Compared. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2015; 47 (3):691-708.

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Amanda Eyer; Antonio Ferreira. 2015. "Taking the Tyke on a Bike: Mothers' and Childless Women's Space-Time Geographies in Amsterdam Compared." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 47, no. 3: 691-708.

Research
Published: 09 December 2013 in Climate Policy
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The UK Climate Change Act 2008 commits to a reduction of 80% in national GHG emissions by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. This article explores what happens next where these top-level aspirations are expected to be turned into radical action. It does so through examination of the transport sector, which is a highly complex, fragmented, and multi-level delivery environment. The research draws on cases studies of four major cities with different governance structures within the two distinct, yet connected, national contexts of England and Scotland. It integrates a range of theoretical legacies, namely ‘muddling through’, multi-level governance, and positional analysis, to look across governmental layers and out to non-governmental actors at all levels. Underneath the 80% target, the framework for action remains unclear. Lower-tiered authorities report difficulties in acting in a more comprehensive or rapid manner than upper tiers of government, largely because of the potential costs involved and a significant resource dependency on national governments. Ambition is also tempered by conflicts with economic growth objectives and the difficulties in aligning the objectives of the myriad of public and private organizations that need to take action.

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Greg Marsden; Antonio Ferreira; Ian Bache; Matthew Flinders; Ian Bartle. Muddling through with climate change targets: a multi-level governance perspective on the transport sector. Climate Policy 2013, 14, 617 -636.

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Greg Marsden, Antonio Ferreira, Ian Bache, Matthew Flinders, Ian Bartle. Muddling through with climate change targets: a multi-level governance perspective on the transport sector. Climate Policy. 2013; 14 (5):617-636.

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Greg Marsden; Antonio Ferreira; Ian Bache; Matthew Flinders; Ian Bartle. 2013. "Muddling through with climate change targets: a multi-level governance perspective on the transport sector." Climate Policy 14, no. 5: 617-636.

Original articles
Published: 20 August 2013 in Transport Reviews
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To understand the complex meanings of mobility and to engage in transport planning and management processes, a variety of disciplines, skills, and tools are potentially useful. Universities have a limited amount of time and resources to train future professionals though. This poses a problem: where should the teaching priorities be? By means of a web-survey, this study has asked academics based at a number of universities what the disciplines, skills, and tools that — according to their personal viewpoints — are the most relevant for practitioners in the mobility and transport sector. The respondents generally support curricula that facilitate a holistic, non-specialised, understanding of mobility and transport issues.

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Antonio Ferreira; Greg Marsden; Marco Te Brömmelstroet. What Curriculum for Mobility and Transport Studies? A Critical Exploration. Transport Reviews 2013, 33, 501 -525.

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Antonio Ferreira, Greg Marsden, Marco Te Brömmelstroet. What Curriculum for Mobility and Transport Studies? A Critical Exploration. Transport Reviews. 2013; 33 (5):501-525.

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Antonio Ferreira; Greg Marsden; Marco Te Brömmelstroet. 2013. "What Curriculum for Mobility and Transport Studies? A Critical Exploration." Transport Reviews 33, no. 5: 501-525.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2013 in Town Planning Review
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Antonio Ferreira. Emotions in planning practice: a critical review and a suggestion for future developments based on mindfulness. Town Planning Review 2013, 84, 703 -719.

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Antonio Ferreira. Emotions in planning practice: a critical review and a suggestion for future developments based on mindfulness. Town Planning Review. 2013; 84 (6):703-719.

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Antonio Ferreira. 2013. "Emotions in planning practice: a critical review and a suggestion for future developments based on mindfulness." Town Planning Review 84, no. 6: 703-719.

Research article
Published: 01 March 2012 in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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Mobility has become a central aspect of many people's lives. This is the natural result of the massive investments made in the transport sector throughout the world. These investments were made because the benefits provided by mobility are many. However, the negative effects resulting from mobility cannot be ignored when sustainability is considered. This poses a question: how can we experience the positive effects of mobility without experiencing the negative ones as well? Through the use of an unorthodox paper structure we facilitate the exploration of multiple directions of academic scrutiny which might provide solutions for this question.

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António Ferreira; Peter Batey; Marco Te Brömmelstroet; Luca Bertolini. Beyond the Dilemma of Mobility: Exploring New Ways of Matching Intellectual and Physical Mobility. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2012, 44, 688 -704.

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António Ferreira, Peter Batey, Marco Te Brömmelstroet, Luca Bertolini. Beyond the Dilemma of Mobility: Exploring New Ways of Matching Intellectual and Physical Mobility. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2012; 44 (3):688-704.

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António Ferreira; Peter Batey; Marco Te Brömmelstroet; Luca Bertolini. 2012. "Beyond the Dilemma of Mobility: Exploring New Ways of Matching Intellectual and Physical Mobility." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 44, no. 3: 688-704.