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_a711.45
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_aNewman, Peter
245 _aEnd of automobile dependence
_b: How cities are moving beyond car-based planning
260 _aWashington
_bIsland Press
_c2015
300 _axvi, 300p.
_bPaperback
_c25.5*18 cm
520 _aCities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities are revitalizing, and suburban sprawl is reversing. Walking and cycling are growing in many cities, along with ubiquitous bike sharing schemes, which have contributed to new investment and vitality in central cities including Melbourne, Seattle, Chicago, and New York.
_bWe are thus in a new era that has come much faster than global transportation experts Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy had predicted: the end of automobile dependence. In The End of Automobile Dependence, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes, with a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated data on 44 global cities to better understand how to facilitate and guide cities to the most productive and sustainable outcomes. This is the final volume in a trilogy by Newman and Kenworthy on automobile dependence (Cities and Automobile Dependence in 1989 and Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence in 1999). Like all good trilogies this one shows the rise of an empire, in this case that of the automobile, the peak of its power, and the decline of that empire. CONTENT : Preface: The Trilogy Chapter 1. The Rise and Fall of Automobile Dependence Chapter 2: Urban Transportation Patterns and Trends in Global Cities Chapter 3: Emerging Cities and Automobile Dependence Chapter 4: The Theory of Urban Fabrics: Understanding the End of Automobile Dependence Chapter 5: Transportation Planning: Hindrance or Help? Chapter 6: Overcoming Barriers to the End of Automobile Dependence Chapter 7: The End of Automobile Dependence: A Troubling Prognosis? Chapter 8: Conclusion: Life after Automobile Dependence Appendix Endnotes and Reference
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_aURBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN (AR-UPD)
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_aKenworthy, Jeffrey
856 _uhttps://islandpress.org/books/end-automobile-dependence
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