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Better Public Transit Systems is a complete primer for performance and investment analysis of public transportation. Whether you’re planning a major new public transit project, an extension or expansion of an existing system, or evaluating the needs of your current system, this book provides the tools you need to define your goals and objectives and conceive and analyze design alternatives. This completely revised Second Edition includes new material for students and online discussion questions, whilst remaining an essential reference book.
This book provides an evaluation of the delivery of sustainable development policies, and governance processes to support these, in local governments across Europe, focusing particularly on European tools that have specifically been designed to monitor local sustainability progress. This is particularly timely given the upcoming Rio 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and the key role of local governments in delivering sustainable development policies.
Internationally renowned academic Sir Peter Hall has just published a new book, Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism, looking at the urban planning challenges faced in Britain and other countries, and how lessons from the European experience can help to put it right.
This new report of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the world’s leading authority on urban issues, provides some thought-provoking insights and policy recommendations on how to plan and design sustainable urban mobility systems. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends.
Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transportation systems requires a conceptual leap.
Our new Refurbishment and Renovation 2013-2014 online catalog is now online and available to browse.
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What is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives, it thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions.
Routledge is delighted to announce the launch of a new monograph series, Studies in International Planning History that publishes new editions of key texts in the development of planning as a professional and academic discipline.
July 2013 sees the publication of the first tranche of titles, including works by Raymond Unwin and Thomas Sharp, and the Proceedings of the 1913 Ghent Planning Congress, as well as two short but influential volumes on planning in Africa in the middle of the 20th Century. Future publications will include works from Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan.
Today’s most pressing challenges require behavior change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change. A multi-disciplinary exploration of how behavior change in our built environment can affect long term sustainability.
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