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Transforming Urban Transport: The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility book cover

1st Edition

Transforming Urban Transport The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

Edited By Nicholas Low Copyright 2013
288 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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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. Changes in urban mobility and transport require local institutional policy action. To support such action, the book explores new methods... Read more

Part One: The Global Dilemma  Chapter 1.The Dilemma of Mobility  Chapter 2. The Mobility of Goods and People: The Foundation of our Transport Systems  Chapter 3. The Global Environmental Crisis of Transport  Part Two: Global and Local Change and Persistence  Chapter 4. From Automobility  to Sustainable Transport Chapter 5. Capitalist Regulation and the Provision of Public Transportation in Japan  Chapter 6. Institutional Barriers and Opportunities Part Three: Strategies of Transformation  Chapter 7. Governing Dispersed and Concentrated Cities  Chapter 8. Actiobn Strategies for Paradigm Shift  Chapter 9. New Analysis for a New Synthesis  Chapter 10. Harnessing the Energy of Free Range Children Chapter 11. Disseminating Learning  Chapter 12. The Dimensions of Change

Biography

Nicholas Low

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