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Beyond mobility : planning cities for people and places /
"Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly--and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Urban recalibration : Challenges to creating sustainable and just cities ; The case for moving beyond mobility ; Contexts for urban recalibration ; Emerging opportunities and challenges
- Part I. Making the case : Better communities : Increasing social capital and sociability ; Shared spaced, complete streets, and safety ; Public health and walkability ; Social equity, diversity, and opportunity
- Better environments : Defining sustainable cities and transport ; Reducing oil dependence ; The climate change: decarbonizing cities and transport ; Local pollution ; Environmental mitigation and urban recalibration
- Better economies : Lifestyle preferences and economics ; The big picture ; Access and land markets ; Freeways and motorways ; Public transit ; Transport infrastructure in the global south ; Road restraints, pedestrianization, and economic performance ; Urban amenities and nature ; Community designs and economic performance
- Part II. Contexts and cases : Urban transformations : Dockland conversions ; London docklands ; Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam ; Canalside, Buffalo ; Redevelopment of warehouse districts ; Southside Charlotte, North Carolina ; 22@Barcelona ; Rail-to-greenway conversions ; The High Line, New York City ; The Atlantic BeltLine ; The Great Allegheny Passage ; Gleisdreieck Park, Berlin
- Suburban transformations : Office park retrofits ; Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California ; Hacienda, Pleasanton, California ; Cottle Transit Village, San Jose, California ; Edge city to suburban TOD: Tysons, Virginia ; Revamped malls and shopping centers ; Other suburban retrofits
- Transit-oriented development : The TOD process: planning and typologies ; Node versus place ; Nodes of access ; TODs as places ; TOD planning and typologies in Portland ; TOD design and guidelines ; The TOD standard ; Place identity: Oakland's Fruitvale station ; The Pearl District, Portland, Oregon: streetcar-oriented development ; The Beaverton Round, Portland, Oregon: TOD's market limits ; Hong Kong: rail development, place-making, and profiteering ; MTR and R+P ; R+P TOD ; Connecting places in other TOD place types ; Green TODs ; Kid-friendly TODs ; TOD as adaptive reuse: experiences from Dallas
- Road contraction : Traffic calming ; Car-free districts ; Road dieting ; Green connectors ; Roadway deconstruction and reassignments ; Urban regeneration in Seoul ; Land reclamation in Seoul ; Capitalizing the benefits of greenways ; San Francisco's freeway-to-boulevard conversions ; Neighborhood impacts ; Traffic and safety impacts
- The global south : Transit cities ; Nonmotorized cities ; Motorcycle cities ; Designing for a planet of suburbs ; Improving suburban conditions ; Suburban upgrading ; Planning for suburbs ; Enabling mortgage markets ; Organic place-making ; Designing for a transit metropolis ; Transit and TOD challenges in China ; Bus rapid transit ; The TransMilenio experience (Bogotá, Colombia) ; Experiences in Ahmedabad, India ; BRT-land use integration in Guangzhou ; BRT in Indonesia ; Suburban transit investments ; Ciudad Azteca: a different king of TOD ; Medellín Metrocable
- Emerging technologies : Ride-hailing and shared-ride services ; Driverless cars: the elephant in the room ; The state of driverless cars ; Safety ; Expanding transit options ; A parking revolution ; Getting the price of car travel right ; Freight movement in cities ; Communication technology ; The realm of possibility
- Toward sustainable urban futures : Density and design ; Megatrends and urban futures ; Aging societies ; Shifting lifestyle preferences and the millennials ; Twenty-first-century employment ; Beyond mobility metrics ; Mobility and sustainability ; Accessibility ; Livability ; Affordability ; Inclusive cities.