Equity in temporary street closures: The case of London's Covid-19 'School Streets' schemes.

ABSTRACT: School Streets are a street space reallocation scheme that has proliferated since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, reducing motor traffic on streets outside many schools. Utilising a minimum-standards approach to equity, this paper examines the distribution of School Streets closures across social and environmental indicators of equity, and spatially across London's administrative geography. Using a multi-level regression analysis, we show that although School Streets have been equally distributed across several socio-demographic indicators, they are less likely to benefit schools in car-dominated areas of poor air quality, and their spatial distribution is highly unequal. This study presents an example of using environmental and spatial variables alongside more typical so

SUBMITTER: Thomas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9373876 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature