TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Experiences of connectivity and severance in the wake of a new motorway: implications for health and well-being
JO  - Social science and medicine (1982)
A1  - Nimegeer, Amy
A1  - Thomson, Hilary
A1  - Foley, Louise
A1  - Hilton, Shona
A1  - Crawford, Fiona
A1  - Ogilvie, David
SP  - 78
EP  - 86
VL  - 197
IS  - 
N2  - The construction of new urban roads may cause severance, or the separation of residents from local amenities or social networks. Using qualitative data from a natural experimental study, we examined severance related to a new section of urban motorway constructed through largely deprived residential neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland. Semi-structured and photo-elicitation interviews were used to better understand severance and connectivity related to the new motorway, and specifically implications for individual and community-level health and well-being through active travel and social connections. Rather than a clear severance impact attributable to the motorway, a complex system of connection and severance was spoken about by participants, with the motorway being described by turns as a force for both connection and severance. We conclude that new transport infrastructure is complex, embedded, and plausibly causally related to connectedness and health. Our findings suggest the potential for a novel mechanism through which severance is enacted: the disruptive impacts that a new road may have on third places of social connection locally, even when it does not physically sever them. This supports social theories that urge a move away from conceptualising social connectedness in terms of the local neighbourhood only, towards an understanding of how we live and engage dynamically with services and people in a much wider geographical area, and may have implications for local active travel and health through changes in social connectedness.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0277-9536
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.049
ID  - ref1
ER  -