RESEARCH PROJECT
Sustainable Leisure Mobilities in Compact Towns - Changing patterns of outdoor recreation in transit-oriented development (TOD)
Updated: November 2025
Project overview
Project start:
January 2017
Ending:
December 2022
Project manager:
Mattias Qvistrom
Funded by:
Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas)
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Short summary
The project aimed to acknowledge the history of the welfare planning and its current role for sustainable transit-oriented development (TOD).
The current thrust for transit-oriented development (TOD) aims to concentrate building density around public transport nodes. However, such a strategy fosters sustainable development only if it facilitates sustainable mobilities in a wider sense, including outdoor recreation. The embedded (but disregarded) qualities from the welfare planning could strengthen such an approach.
Therefore this project aimed to:
- acknowledge the history of the welfare planning and its current role for the sustainable TODs;
- reveal the current use of places for active outdoor recreation of the TOD inhabitants, and
- explore the possibilities to encourage sustainable mobilities in TODs, with special emphasis on green structure planning.
The project contributed to an understanding of the potentials for wellbeing and sustainable leisure mobilities in compact cities, and to green structure development.