Papers by Huê-Tâm Jamme
The ambivalence of independent mobility: Balancing perceived risks and expected benefits of walking to school in inner-city neighborhoods
Travel Behaviour and Society
Les envers de la métropolisation: Les ruelles de Hồ Chí Minh Ville, Vietnam By Marie Gibert-Flutre. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2019. 243 pp. ISBN: 9782271121530 (paper)
The Journal of Asian Studies
The proposed research was an in-depth case study of a publicprivate partnership (PPP) between Lyf... more The proposed research was an in-depth case study of a publicprivate partnership (PPP) between Lyft and the City of Monrovia, where a station on the LA Metro rail system opened in March 2016. Lyft is an on-demand transportation company providing ride-hailing services and based in San Francisco. Monrovia, a suburban community, with a population of 37,100 is located 20 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Transportation and Heritage Conservation: An Unexpected Nexus
Sustainable and Affordable Housing Near Rail Transit: Refining and Expanding a Scenario Planning Tool
Institutional Response to Transit Oriented Development in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: Understanding Local Differences through the Prism of Density, Diversity, and Design
Private uses make public spaces
Routledge Handbook of Street Culture, 2020
Modern infrastructure and historic urban landscape
Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation, 2019
Primarily aimed to modernize the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi’s metro project has also challenged tr... more Primarily aimed to modernize the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi’s metro project has also challenged traditional heritage conservation practices. We argue that a relatively wide range of stakeholders seized the opportunity to re-evaluate various layers of the historic urban landscape and their role for future urban development. We conducted a case study of two significant landmarks. One plays a central role in official conservation strategies because of its indigenous features; the other remains peripheral since it is strongly representative of all foreign influences that shaped the city. In public discussions on the heritage impacts of Hanoi’s metro project on these two landmarks, we find significant shifts compared to the official approach to heritage conservation. These include broader public consultation, rising concerns for long-term cultural losses of all layers of the historic urban landscape, and an appeal for heritage conservation praxis as change and growth management.
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2020
Transportation planning today requires an understanding of how income and near-rail residence joi... more Transportation planning today requires an understanding of how income and near-rail residence jointly influence household travel behavior. This article fills a gap in the literature by showing how vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and transit trips taken (TT) vary with income and rail transit access by neighborhood type. Results indicate that, when comparing households with similar incomes and examining how the "near-rail" versus "far from rail" VMT and TT gap varies by income, the cross-sectional reduction in nominal VMT and the increase in TT on a percentage basis is generally larger for higher-income households (>$50,000), and particularly so in neighborhoods dense with both jobs and population. These findings offer support for the notion that near-transit housing targeting higher-income households can have both sustainability and transit use benefits. We note, though, that equity considerations are a strong reason to include low-income housing near rail transit, and argue that policies focusing overly singly on either low-income or high-income housing near rail transit will not be as impactful as a robust focus on mixed-income housing developments in rail transit-oriented developments (TODs).
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2019
Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban d... more Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban design idea of transit-oriented development (TOD) extended the land use and transportation nexus. This review article offers a twenty-five-year retrospective of TOD literature, shaped by disciplinary, policy, and practice predilections. Although the “D” in TOD stands for the encompassing notion of “development,” most literature focused on land development in particular. Meanwhile, sustainable or community development ideas languished, and other Ds such as Density, Diversity, and Design served as an operational framework for outcome-based research. We conclude by urging renewed focus in TOD research on the original goal of developing inclusive and sustainable communities.
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2018
This paper examines the relationship between income, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and greenhouse... more This paper examines the relationship between income, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for households with varying access to rail transit in four metropolitan areas—Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, and Sacramento—using data from the 2010–2012 California Household Travel Survey. Daily vehicle GHG emissions are calculated using the California Air Resources Board’s 2014 EMFAC (emission factors) model. Two Tobit regression models are used to predict daily VMT and GHG by income, rail transit access (within or outside 0.5 miles of a rail transit station in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and linear distance to rail in San Diego and Sacramento), and metropolitan area. Comparing predicted VMT and GHG emissions levels, this paper concludes that predicted VMT and GHG emission patterns for rail access vary across metropolitan areas in ways that may be related to the age and connectivity of the areas’ rail systems. The results also show that diffe...
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2018
While research on active school travel usually focuses on physical activity benefits, this study ... more While research on active school travel usually focuses on physical activity benefits, this study proposes a conceptual framework to understand children's well-being, cognitive development, and community life associated with walking to school in an inner-city neighborhood. A series of children-centered activities (surveys, cognitive mapping, and focus groups) revealed that students who walk to school develop an acute understanding of their environment and a distinct sense of community. They feel comfortable with "eyes on the street" of residents, shopkeepers, and patrons but they express discomfort in the presence of "broken windows," i.e. cues of social disorder in the built environment. Their major concerns are about gangs and crime. Policies promoting walking to school should be responsive to these social milieu aspects and aim at communities' overall well-being rather than focusing just on children's physical health.
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2023
Problem, Research Strategy, and Findings: Walking, biking, and transit are known to shape street ... more Problem, Research Strategy, and Findings: Walking, biking, and transit are known to shape street commerce, whereas private motorized mobility is assumed to act against it. I advance a new theory of productive frictions according to which opportunities for street commerce do not depend on the mode of transportation but the mode of interaction between people in motion and the built environment. The construct of productive frictions is grounded in Vietnam's motorbike-centric urbanism. There, what core factors relate private motorized mobility with vibrant retail that anchors street life? To answer this question, I recorded 68 interviews and 333 video clips of street life in Ho Chi Minh City in 2018. Grounded theory methods guided systematic data collection, coding, and mixed-method analyses that led to the conceptualization of productive frictions. Productive frictions are the opportunities for social interactions produced by the contact of people on the move with the built environment they traverse. In Ho Chi Minh City, the core factors that create contact and make motorbike riders particularly prone to productive frictions include: slow speed, direct sensory perceptions, ease of weaving in and out of traffic, and abundant stimuli from stalls, stores, and people lining the streets. Evidence suggests that motorbike riders experience productive frictions less intensely than pedestrians but over greater distances, whereas automobilists generally experience low levels of productive frictions.
Takeaway for Practice: Productive frictions support small businesses, which shape accessibility, economic vibrancy, and street life. Cities like Ho Chi Minh City experiencing rising automobility should preserve motorized two-wheel mobility for their productive frictions benefits, at least until mass transit is sufficiently developed to support dense and walkable urbanism.
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2019
Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban d... more Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban design idea of transit-oriented development (TOD) extended the land use and transportation nexus. This review article offers a twenty-five-year retrospective of TOD literature, shaped by disciplinary, policy, and practice predilections. Although the “D” in TOD stands for the encompassing notion of “development,” most literature focused on land development in particular. Meanwhile, sustainable or community development ideas languished, and other Ds such as Density, Diversity, and Design served as an operational framework for outcome-based research. We conclude by urging renewed focus in TOD research on the original goal of developing inclusive and sustainable communities.
While research on active school travel usually focuses on physical activity benefits, this study ... more While research on active school travel usually focuses on physical activity benefits, this study proposes a conceptual framework to understand children's well-being, cognitive development, and community life associated with walking to school in an inner-city neighborhood. A series of children-centered activities (surveys, cognitive mapping, and focus groups) revealed that students who walk to school develop an acute understanding of their environment and a distinct sense of community. They feel comfortable with "eyes on the street" of residents, shopkeepers, and patrons but they express discomfort in the presence of "broken windows," i.e. cues of social disorder in the built environment. Their major concerns are about gangs and crime. Policies promoting walking to school should be responsive to these social milieu aspects and aim at communities' overall well-being rather than focusing just on children's physical health.
In V. Bharne, & T. Sandmeier (Eds.), Routledge companion to global heritage conservation, 2019
Primarily aimed to modernize the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi’s metro project has also challenged tr... more Primarily aimed to modernize the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi’s metro project has also challenged traditional heritage conservation practices. We argue that a relatively wide range of stakeholders seized the opportunity to re-evaluate various layers of the historic urban landscape and their role for future urban development. We conducted a case study of two significant landmarks. One plays a central role in official conservation strategies because of its indigenous features; the other remains peripheral since it is strongly representative of all foreign influences that shaped the city. In public discussions on the heritage impacts of Hanoi’s metro project on these two landmarks, we find significant shifts compared to the official approach to heritage conservation. These include broader public consultation, rising concerns for long-term cultural losses of all layers of the historic urban landscape, and an appeal for heritage conservation praxis as change and growth management.
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Takeaway for Practice: Productive frictions support small businesses, which shape accessibility, economic vibrancy, and street life. Cities like Ho Chi Minh City experiencing rising automobility should preserve motorized two-wheel mobility for their productive frictions benefits, at least until mass transit is sufficiently developed to support dense and walkable urbanism.
Conference Presentations by Huê-Tâm Jamme