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Who's afraid of pedestrianisation? Residents' perceptions and preferences on street transformation Nello-Deakin, Samuel Sancho Vallvé, Candela Akinci, Zeynep Sila Barcelona Pedestrianisation Resident survey Street transformation Superblocks Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB While urban pedestrianisation schemes typically attract vociferous opposition, it is often unclear whether these negative views are representative of the general population. For this reason, understanding how residents perceive the impacts of such schemes is critical to their evaluation. To this aim, this article assesses residents' perceptions and preferences regarding the pedestrianisation of multiple streets in the Eixample district of Barcelona in recent years, through a representative survey of the district's residents (n = 1211). Our research examines how residents' views on pedestrianisation vary depending on their mobility habits, sociodemographic background, and the level of traffic calming of the street they live on. Our results show that most respondents (66%) consider that the impacts of existing pedestrianisations have been positive regardless of whether they live on a pedestrianised street or not, even though residents of recently pedestrianised streets are more positive than those living on other streets. At the same time, many residents of pedestrianised streets consider that the benefits of reduced traffic externalities may be partially counterbalanced by new problems caused by an intensive use of public space (e.g. noise from people and cafes, touristification, nightlife). Our results also show that there is a strong relationship between support for pedestrianisation, age and mobility habits: daily car and motorbike users are much less supportive of pedestrianisation than public transport users and cyclists, while support for pedestrianisation decreases markedly with advancing age. 2024 Article https://ddd.uab.cat/record/301460 urn:10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103117 urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:301460 urn:oai:egreta.uab.cat:publications/6a8bfc49-f474-4442-8bd9-a538bef10300 urn:pure_id:424436518 urn:scopus_id:85195032461 urn:wos_id:001251267500001 urn:articleid:01973975v150p103117 http://hdl.handle.net/2072/477785 eng Habitat International ; Vol. 150 (2024), p. 103117 open access Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf