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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337702903321

Autore

Mercier Jean

Titolo

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas [[electronic resource] /] / by Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-99091-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 pages)

Disciplina

388.40973

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Transportation engineering

Traffic engineering

Urban geography

Transportation

Political science

Urban Studies/Sociology

Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

Governance and Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The context of sustainable urban transport -- Three cities of the Americas: policies and instruments in Seattle, Montreal and Curitiba -- Conclusion on the data -- Looking to the Future.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and policy instruments (planning, consultation and market mechanisms for example) were implemented in each case. Through concepts coming from policy studies and sociology, for example, such as path dependency, institutional culture



and transaction costs, the three cities are also looked at in a broader perspective in order to better understand how they deal differently with their common challenges.