Stefánsdóttir, H. (2015) ‘Offentlige rom for mennesker eller for biler? [Public spaces for people or cars?]’, Kart og Plan, 75(4), pp. 320–327.

An apparently possible journey may nevertheless announce that its traveller is unwelcome. Stefánsdóttir examines the symbolic and experiential character of public environments dominated by cars and asks how such settings shape the appeal of walking and cycling. The article is a design-theoretical argument informed by situated examples, not a controlled test showing that visual character causes a quantified modal shift. Its critical operation is to separate infrastructural provision from the atmospheres through which provision is encountered. A continuous cycle route or a technically walkable destination can still be embedded in an environment whose scale, surfaces, noise and spatial priorities communicate a preference for drivers. Transport choices are therefore not made inside a neutral network. For fieldwork, the article suggests recording the perceived hierarchy of modes, the aesthetic character of crossings and the experience of vulnerability without converting these observations into presumed population-level behaviour. A route's permissions can be felt as well as regulated.