Draw Me a City without Cars: Aspirations Regarding Lifestyle and Mobility in Île-de-France
In a context of questioning the role of the automobile in urban mobility, this paper presents the first results of a prospective research that aims at sketching the conditions of the transition to a Post-Car Île-de-France. Based on a quantitative and qualitative approach of mobility practices and individual aspirations of Paris region inhabitants, this paper highlights the plurality of mobility practices, of these ideals, but also the shared aspirations for improvement of mobility conditions, proximity and slowing down as a counterpoint to urban hypermobility. Taking into account the inhabitants’ aspirations allows to draw a partial but shared scenario of reduction of car mobility in the Île-de-France region that takes into account the diversity of ideals, territorial constraints and the center-periphery pattern of mobilities. These results contribute to the debates on the place of cars in cities and on the conditions for a transition of mobilities, and highlight the issue of territorial adjustment of policies that aim to reduce car dependency.