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1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
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text file |
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Gender group: gdr Men |
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Nationality/regional group: nat Americans |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members |
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Stefan Al Occupational/field of activity group: occ Architects |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-264) and index. |
| Contents |
Urban recalibration : Challenges to creating sustainable and just cities ; Case for moving beyond mobility ; Contexts for urban recalibration ; Emerging opportunities and challenges -- Part I. Making the case : Better communities : Increasing social capital and sociability ; Shared spaced, complete streets, and safety ; Public health and walkability ; Social equity, diversity, and opportunity -- Better environments : Defining sustainable cities and transport ; Reducing oil dependence ; Climate change: decarbonizing cities and transport ; Local pollution ; Environmental mitigation and urban recalibration -- Better economies : Lifestyle preferences and economics ; Big picture ; Access and land markets ; Freeways and motorways ; Public transit ; Transport infrastructure in the global south ; Road restraints, pedestrianization, and economic performance ; Urban amenities and nature ; Community designs and economic performance -- Part II. Contexts and cases : Urban transformations : Dockland conversions ; London docklands ; Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam ; Canalside, Buffalo ; Redevelopment of warehouse districts ; Southside Charlotte, North Carolina ; 22@Barcelona ; Rail-to-greenway conversions ; High Line, New York City ; Atlantic BeltLine ; Great Allegheny Passage ; Gleisdreieck Park, Berlin -- Suburban transformations : Office park retrofits ; Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California ; Hacienda, Pleasanton, California ; Cottle Transit Village, San Jose, California ; Edge city to suburban TOD: Tysons, Virginia ; Revamped malls and shopping centers ; Other suburban retrofits -- Transit-oriented development : TOD process: planning and typologies ; Node versus place ; Nodes of access ; TODs as places ; TOD planning and typologies in Portland ; TOD design and guidelines ; TOD standard ; Place identity: Oakland's Fruitvale station ; Pearl District, Portland, Oregon: streetcar-oriented development ; Beaverton Round, Portland, Oregon: TOD's market limits ; Hong Kong: rail development, place-making, and profiteering ; MTR and R+P ; R+P TOD ; Connecting places in other TOD place types ; Green TODs ; Kid-friendly TODs ; TOD as adaptive reuse: experiences from Dallas -- Road contraction : Traffic calming ; Car-free districts ; Road dieting ; Green connectors ; Roadway deconstruction and reassignments ; Urban regeneration in Seoul ; Land reclamation in Seoul ; Capitalizing the benefits of greenways ; San Francisco's freeway-to-boulevard conversions ; Neighborhood impacts ; Traffic and safety impacts -- Global south : Transit cities ; Nonmotorized cities ; Motorcycle cities ; Designing for a planet of suburbs ; Improving suburban conditions ; Suburban upgrading ; Planning for suburbs ; Enabling mortgage markets ; Organic place-making ; Designing for a transit metropolis ; Transit and TOD challenges in China ; Bus rapid transit ; TransMilenio experience (Bogotá, Colombia) ; Experiences in Ahmedabad, India ; BRT-land use integration in Guangzhou ; BRT in Indonesia ; Suburban transit investments ; Ciudad Azteca: a different king of TOD ; Medellín Metrocable -- Emerging technologies : Ride-hailing and shared-ride services ; Driverless cars: the elephant in the room ; State of driverless cars ; Safety ; Expanding transit options ; A parking revolution ; Getting the price of car travel right ; Freight movement in cities ; Communication technology ; Realm of possibility -- Toward sustainable urban futures : Density and design ; Megatrends and urban futures ; Aging societies ; Shifting lifestyle preferences and the millennials ; Twenty-first-century employment ; Beyond mobility metrics ; Mobility and sustainability ; Accessibility ; Livability ; Affordability ; Inclusive cities. |
| Summary |
"Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly--and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, a failure to stem traffic congestion. Every year our current transportation paradigm generates more than 1.25 million fatalities directly through traffic collisions. Worldwide, 3.2 million people died prematurely in 2010 because of air pollution, four times as many as a decade earlier. Instead of planning primarily for mobility, our cities should focus on the safety, health, and access of the people in them. Beyond Mobility is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places. This is as important, if not more important, than expediting movement. A stronger focus on accessibility and place creates better communities, environments, and economies. Rethinking how projects are planned and designed in cities and suburbs needs to occur at multiple geographic scales, from micro-designs (such as parklets), corridors (such as road-diets), and city-regions (such as an urban growth boundary). It can involve both software (a shift in policy) and hardware (a physical transformation). Moving beyond mobility must also be socially inclusive, a significant challenge in light of the price increases that typically result from creating higher quality urban spaces. There are many examples of communities across the globe working to create a seamless fit between transit and surrounding land uses, retrofit car-oriented suburbs, reclaim surplus or dangerous roadways for other activities, and revitalize neglected urban spaces like abandoned railways in urban centers. The authors draw on experiences and data from a range of cities and countries around the globe in making the case for moving beyond mobility. Throughout the book, they provide an optimistic outlook about the potential to transform places for the better. Beyond Mobility celebrates the growing demand for a shift in global thinking around place and mobility in creating better communities, environments, and economies"--Publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
City planning -- Social aspects.
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City planning -- Social aspects. |
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City planning -- Environmental aspects.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects. |
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City planning -- Economic aspects.
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City planning -- Economic aspects. |
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City planning. |
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Land use, Urban.
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Land use, Urban. |
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Urban transportation.
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Urban transportation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Guerra, Erick, author.
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Al, Stefan, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781610919289 |
| ISBN |
9781610918350 (electronic book) |
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1610918355 (electronic book) |
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9781610919289 |
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1610919289 |
| Standard No. |
10.5822/978-1-61091-835-0 |
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