Spatial planning as the seduction towards (un)desired mobility behaviour A spatial analysis of the travel behaviour of older people in Maastricht and Margraten In the field of spatial planning, a difference in opinion exists about the primacy of the so called stream and stay functions. And especially about in what way these functions influence each other and influence the (activity-travel) behaviour of people. What structures what? By means of the spatial analysis of the travel behaviour of older people, this paper concludes that: (1) both needs and possibilities make people travel; (2) people themselves decide if, when, where to, and how they want to travel, in stead of spatial planners; (3) spatial planning however does create the spatial conditions of the travel behaviour of people, and thus is a seducer to, and a facilitator of (un)desired mobility behaviour. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting