Transport for People, Places and the Planet
Our economic welfare and social well being depend on our mobility. But our means of travel threaten the planet's sustainability. In this innovative text, Luca Bertolini shows how mobility planning - which takes seriously the demands of both urban and transport planning - offers solutions to transport challenges in the 21st Century.
Omschrijving
Our economic welfare and social well-being depend on our mobility. But our means of travel threaten the planet's sustainability. In this innovative text, Luca Bertolini shows how mobility planning - which takes seriously the demands of both urban and transport planning - offers solutions to transport challenges in the 21st Century.
Promotionele informatie
'This is a book for urban planners, transport planners, as well as those thinking about urban futures. In a very clearly-written and presented text, Bertolini argues that accessibility not mobility should be at the core of integrated thinking about the relation between social activity, urban form and transport. With extensive illustrations, he explains what this involves and offers practical advice on how to develop such an approach, for consideration not just by academics and professionals, but all of us concerned about everyday urban living. Drawing on a rich knowledge of recent work in the fields of urban design, transport planning and innovation, Bertolini throughout encourages readers to follow up issues through the literature and to reflect and to debate alternative perspectives and…
Productspecificaties
- Auteur: Luca Bertolini (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam)
- Serie: Planning, Environment, Cities
- Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint: Red Globe Press
- Verschijningsdatum: 2017-03-14
- Aantal pagina's: 224
- ISBN: 9780230308770
- Thema: Transport planning and policy
- BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning
Over de auteur
Luca Bertolini is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.