Shocking the suburbs : oil vulnerability in the Australian city / Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodson, Jago, author.

Sipe, Neil, author.

Series:

Briefings (Sydney, N.S.W.)

Briefings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation--Australia.

Transportation.

City planning--Australia.

City planning.

Automobiles--Australia--Fuel consumption.

Automobiles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 pages)

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyses the 2007 election results to demonstrate the political impact of rising petrol prices. The book considers how urban planning and broader public policy have helped create current transport problems; assesses the current risks and vulnerabilities of Australian cities confronting a scenario of rising fuel costs, based on detailed research undertaken by the authors; identifies how planning and public policy can address oil vulnerability in the Australian city; and, contains links to online maps.Petrol prices have risen to historic highs, disrupting western economies and stretching household budgets. Australia's overwhelming reliance on the private motor car for urban mobility makes our cities among the most oil-dependent in the world, and to date there has been little analysis of the potential social, economic and political impacts of rising fuel costs on our cities. "Shocking the Suburbs" considers current urban transport problems, and identifies how new planning strategies and broader public policy can address oil vulnerability.

Contents:

1. An unfamiliar world

2. Solving housing problems by creating suburbs

3. Towards uneasy oil

4. Shocking the city: Higher fuel and housing costs in the suburbs

5. Oil and politics: The impact of rising fuel costs on suburban constituencies

6. Oil-proofing Australian cities: Transport and planning solutions to oil vulnerability

7. Aftershocks: Facing the challenge of oil vulnerability in Australia's cities.

Notes:

"A UNSW Press book"

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-74223-066-0

OCLC:

691077433