Transforming urban transport : the ethics, politics and practices of sustainable mobility / edited by Nicholas Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Low, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban transportation policy.

Urban transportation--Environmental aspects.

Urban transportation.

Sustainable engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 combinatio

Contents:

The dilemma of mobility

Mobility of goods and people : the foundation of our transport systems

The global environmental crisis of transport

From auto-dependence to sustainable mobility

Global regimes and urban public transport

Institutional barriers to sustainable mobility

Governing dispersed and concentrated cities

Mobilizing paradigm shift

New analysis for a new synthesis

Transforming children's mobility

Disseminating learning

The dimensions of change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-18790-1

0-203-08386-5

1-283-89408-4

1-136-18791-X

9780203083864

OCLC:

823724066