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Transforming Urban Transport: From Automobility to Sustainable Transport

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ISBN-10: 1136187901

ISBN-13: 9781136187902

Edition: N/A

Authors: Nicholas Low

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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 combination of urbanity and higher residential density expressed in compact cities (expected to have greater public…    
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Book details

Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 288