City Typology, for context-sensitive framework and tools development

In order to better understand the factors that hinder SUMP development and address urban mobility challenges, CIVITAS SUMP-PLUS is working within six co-creation laboratories in six cities. Yet due to the varying circumstances and mobility contexts in the project’s partner and (more generally) European cities, SUMP-PLUS determined the need for a city typology that enables the comparison of and the identification of differences between these varied city contexts. This report delivers an overview of the sources and methods used by different organisations, projects and other institutions when creating city typologies. Finally, this report sets out SUMP-PLUS’s own mobility-focused city typology, whose development has drawn on the aforementioned city typologies