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Record Nr.

UNINA9911006629903321

Titolo

Land use and transport : European research toward integrated policies / / edited by Stephen Marshall, David Banister

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, 2007

ISBN

1-281-01869-4

9786611018696

1-61583-249-1

0-08-054991-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Disciplina

388.049094

Soggetti

Land use - Europe - Planning

Transportation - Europe - Planning

Business & Economics - Industries / Agribusiness

Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Prelims -- Introduction -- Context -- Land use and transport: the context -- Themes and relationships -- Policy perspectives -- Achieving sustainable cities with integrated land use and transport strategies -- Planning urban structures for sustainable transport -- Promoting cycling for public health -- A land-use  -  transport vision -- Policy assessment -- Integrated strategies for sustainable urban development -- Urban sprawl and transport -- Assessing life quality in transport planning and urban design -- Assessing and mapping urban freight distribution initiatives -- Policy tools -- Arterial streets: towards an integrated approach -- Promotion of walking: a complex interdisciplinary task -- Software for assessing environmental effects of policies -- Improving decision-making for sustainable urban transport -- Outcomes -- Lessons for policy -- A research agenda -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a text/reference, written in a style accessible to non-specialists as well as academic researchers. It shows the inter-relationships between transport and land use planning, emphasizing the nature of their integration, and showing benefits of integration. It demonstrates



research findings and draws conclusions for application to policy and practice. It is coherent and comprehensive and is based on a major set of recently completed European research projects (PLUME).