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

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge , 2013. London:Description: xx, 280pISBN:

9780415529037

Subject(s):

Urban transportation

DDC classification:

388.40286 TRA

Contents:

1.The dilemma of mobility -- 2.Mobility of goods and people : the foundation of our transport systems -- 3.The global environmental crisis of transport -- 4.From auto-dependence to sustainable mobility -- 5.Global regimes and urban public transport -- 6.Institutional barriers to sustainable mobility -- 7.Governing dispersed and concentrated cities -- 8.Mobilizing paradigm shift -- 9.New analysis for a new synthesis -- 10.Transforming children's mobility -- 11.Disseminating learning -- 12.The dimensions of change.

Summary: "Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution ..."--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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1.The dilemma of mobility --
2.Mobility of goods and people : the foundation of our transport systems --
3.The global environmental crisis of transport --
4.From auto-dependence to sustainable mobility --
5.Global regimes and urban public transport --
6.Institutional barriers to sustainable mobility --
7.Governing dispersed and concentrated cities --
8.Mobilizing paradigm shift --
9.New analysis for a new synthesis --
10.Transforming children's mobility --
11.Disseminating learning --
12.The dimensions of change.

"Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution ..."--Publisher description.

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