Transforming Urban Transport: The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility
- ISBN-10
- 0415529034
- ISBN-13
- 9780415529037
- Category
- Transportation
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Nicholas Low
Description
This book confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. Changes in urban mobility and transport require local institutional policy action. To support such action, the book explores new methods of governance of transport in dispersed and concentrated cities, new techniques for assessing transport needs, ways of improving childhood mobility, guidelines for political mobilization, and norms of knowledge sharing. This book provides a unique fusion of Asian and Australasian perspectives and engages with the coming needs of transport planning practitioners in both high density and dispersed cities.
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