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Transforming Urban Transport : From Automobility to Sustainable Transport.

Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Low, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; PART 1: The global dilemma; 1 The dilemma of mobility; 2 The mobility of goods and people; 3 The global environmental crisis of transport; PART 2: Global and local change and persistence; 4 From automobility to sustainable transport; 5 Capitalist regulation and the provision of public transportation in Japan; 6 Institutional barriers and opportunities; PART 3: Strategies of transformation; 7 Governing dispersed and concentrated cities. 
505 8 |a 8 Action strategies for paradigm change9 New analysis for a new synthesis; 10 Harnessing the energy of free range children; 11 Disseminating learning; 12 Conclusion: dimensions of change; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, and non-motorised transport work together to reduce climate change pressures, enhance urban quality and preserve life and health. The book challenges the commonly held view that a combinatio. 
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