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Urban Form and Accessibility: Social, Economic, and Environment Impacts

Editat de Corinne Mulley, John D. Nelson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2020
The growth of global urbanization places great strains on energy, transportation, housing and public spaces needs. As such, transport and land use are inextricably linked. Urban Form and Accessibility: Social, Economic, and Environment Impacts consolidates key insights from multidisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between urban form and transportation planning. Synthesizing the latest cutting-edge research, the book translates academic evidence into practice. Starting with an overview of the key concepts relevant to each discipline, the book covers critical elements such as governance, travel behavior, and technological disruption, showing how to move towards a more sustainable society for all city inhabitants.

  • Draws on evidence-based success stories from countries around the globe
  • Gathers global leading thinkers to provide the state-of-the-art on the topic
  • Examines social, economic, and environmental impacts within each chapter
  • Each chapter’s content will have the same structure for easier discoverability
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780128198223
ISBN-10: 0128198222
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Public țintă

Transportation and Urban Planning scholars, postgraduate students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers.

Cuprins

1. Introduction 2. Cities, their form, and accessibility 3. Sustainable transport planning and residential segregation at the city scale 4. Governance, mobility and the urban form 5. Emerging mobility technologies and transitions of urban space allocation in a Nordic governance context 6. Urban form and travel behaviour: The interplay with residential self-selection and residential dissonance 7. Making place in the car-dependent city 8. Active accessibility and transit-oriented development: connecting two sides of the same coin 9. Urban form and walkable environments 10. The potential for telecommuting to offer sustainable and resilient accessibility 11. School location, urban structure and accessibility 12. Built environment and health 13. Transport, access and health 14. Public transport equity outcomes through the lens of urban form 15. Urban expansion and mobility on the periphery in the global South 16. Who gains in a distance-based public transport fare scheme? Accessibility, urban form and equity implications in Santiago de Chile 17. Urban form and public transport design 18. Innovative financial mechanisms for transport infrastructure in time of crisis: The case of London Crossrail 19. Dispersion of agglomeration through high-speed rail in China 20. City logistics and the urban environment 21. Land use models and modelling