Social Sustainability and Ulaanbaatar’s ‘Ger Districts’: Access and Mobility Issues and Opportunities

Sustainability

Daniel Fitzpatrick¹  Iqbal Hamiduddin¹  Uurtsaikh Sangi²  Enkhjin Batjargal²  Erdenetsogt Sumiyasuren³  Rebekah Plueckhahn⁴ 

[1] Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London WC1H 0NN, UK;GerHub, Ulaanbaatar 14251, Mongolia;Public Lab Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar 14191, Mongolia;School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia;

关键词: social sustainability;    ger districts;    access;    mobility;    Ulaanbaatar;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su132011470

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper explores the concept of social sustainability in Ulaanbaatar’s ger districts in relation to access and mobility. Although ger districts are well-established in Mongolian culture as ephemeral encampments with transient residents, contemporary ger districts have become large and permanent residential districts that are now home to an estimated one-third of the country’s population. The more recent growth of the ger districts has taken place in three decades since Mongolia embraced market-based liberal economics, coinciding with waves of socially and economically-motivated urbanisation. More recently, difficult environmental conditions in rural Mongolia have created new waves of migration. The unfolding situation means that the ger districts have grown with little of the forward planning present in other built areas of the city. In turn, this has led to significant imbalances in the provision of transport services into the ger districts and the problems of access and mobility that this paper has highlighted. This paper has identified community-based local transport and delivery services as one potential means for addressing existing access and mobility shortcomings. Such approaches could provide temporary or complementary services alongside other public policy approaches.

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