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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.