Connecting places, connecting people : a paradigm for urban living in the twenty-first century / Reena Tiwari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiwari, Reena, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban transportation.

City and town life.

Sustainable urban development.

Physical Description:

xiii, 169 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion? The era of car-based planning has let to the disconnection of people and place in developed countries, and is rapidly doing so in the developing countries of the Global South. The unfolding mega-trend in technological innovation, while adding new patterns of future living and mobility in the cities, will question the relevance of face-to-face connections. What will be the 'glue' that holds communities together in the future? To build better communities and to build better cities, we need to reconnect people and places. Connecting Places, Connecting People offers a new paradigm for place making by reordering urban planning principles from prioritizing movement of vehicles to focusing on places and the people who live in them. Numerous case studies, including many from developing countries in the Global South, illustrate how this can be realized or falled short of in practical terms. Importantly, citizens need to be engaged in policy development, to connect with each other and with government agencies. To measure the connectivity attributes of places and the success of strategies to meet the needs, an Audit Tool is offered for a continual quantitative and qualitative evaluation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Concept 1

Chapter 1 Connecting Places, Connecting People 3

Chapter 2 Connecting Places for Better Communities 13

Part II Mapping the Context: Urban Reconfigurations 29

Chapter 3 Reconfiguring Movement 31

Chapter 4 'Making' Places: Urban and Suburban Transformations 55

Part III Connecting Places, Connecting People: Making It Happen! 81

Chapter 5 Remodeling Approaches: Empowering Place Making and Connectivity 83

Chapter 6 Evaluating People, Place, and Transport Connectivity 97

Part IV The Future 125

Chapter 7 Emerging Challenges: Connected Places in the Global South 127

Chapter 8 Emerging Challenges Technology Mega-trends and Demographic Shifts 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138213050

1138213055

9781138213067

1138213063

OCLC:

974796118