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



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Titolo: Transforming urban transport : the ethics, politics and practices of sustainable mobility / / edited by Nicholas Low Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina: 388.4028/6
Soggetto topico: Urban transportation policy
Urban transportation - Environmental aspects
Sustainable engineering
Altri autori: LowNicholas  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Transforming urban transport  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-18790-1
0-203-08386-5
1-283-89408-4
1-136-18791-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825021803321
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