[PDF] Urban Access For The 21st Century eBook

Author : Elliott Sclar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317933893

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This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this. Policies need to be more inclusive of the accessibility needs of the urban poor. Change requires redesigning the existing public finance systems that support urban mobility. The aim is to diminish their embedded biases towards automobile-based travel. Through a series of chapters from international contributors, the book brings together expertise from different fields. It shows how small changes can incentivize large positive developments in urban transport and create truly accessible cities.

Author : Elliott D. Sclar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131740436X

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By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. To thrive, they will need efficient and sustainable forms of transport, but to achieve this, the financial incentives guiding urban transport operation must change – and change rapidly. Urban transport plays a critical role in determining the social, environmental and economic shape of cities. Improving Urban Access: New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment provide innovative ideas on how we might reorganize transport finance to ensure that it is suited to serving the social, environmental and economic principles that must guide future urban living. Continuing the work begun by its predecessor, Urban Access for the 21st Century, the authors assess the complexity of implementing new finance approaches and suggest ways to make positive and radical changes. Although the range of revenue raising options remain limited to users, indirect beneficiaries, and the general public, these can be recast to transform the way transport is paid for and therefore how its services are delivered. New finance models only succeed when they are intrinsically linked to the economic, social, cultural and political forces that create urban life. Together these volumes provide a starting point for the deeper research and policy design needed to successfully create urban transport finance systems that can address the challenges that 21st century cities present.

Author : Kimberly Etingoff
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1771882581

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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Urban planners around the world are increasingly concerned with creating and maintaining cities that are healthy for both the environment and for individuals. Cities are at the forefront of the trend toward sustainable living, since they are the site of concentrated population, resource use, and

Author : Victor Santiago Pineda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030329887

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This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be situated in a particular place. Second, access and inclusion forms a key part of both local and global planning issues. Third, a 21st century planning education should take access and inclusion into consideration by applying a disability lens to the empirical, methodological, and theoretical advances of the field. By bridging theory and practice, this book provides new insights on inclusive city planning and comparative urban theory. This book should be read as part of a larger struggle to define and assert access; it’s a story of how equity and justice are central themes in building the cities of the future and of today.

Author : Anthony King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509543678

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Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. Why has this happened? What are the defining characteristics of urban warfare today? What are its military and political implications? Leading sociologist Anthony King answers these critical questions through close analysis of recent urban battles and their historical antecedents. Exploring the changing typography and evolving tactics of the urban battlescape, he shows that although not all methods used in urban warfare are new, operations in cities today have become highly distinctive. Urban warfare has coalesced into gruelling micro-sieges, which extend from street level – and below – to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts. At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight. A timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities, this book offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.

Author : David Rudlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136434909

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This successful title, previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home' and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas. The book reviews the way that planning policies, architectural trends and economic forces have undermined the viability of urban areas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Now that much post-war planning philosophy is being discredited we are left with few urban models other than garden city inspired suburbia. Are these appropriate in the 21st century given environmental concerns, demographic change, social and economic pressures? The authors suggest that these trends point to a very different urban future. The authors argue that we must reform our towns and cities so that they become attractive, humane places where people will choose to live. The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood is a model for such reform and the book describes what this would look like and how it might be brought about.

Author : Peter Bishop
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1787358844

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The green belt has been one of the UK’s most consistent and successful planning policies. Over the past century, it has limited urban sprawl and preserved the countryside around our cities, but is it still fit for purpose in a world of unprecedented urban growth and potentially catastrophic climate change? Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century examines the history of the green belt in the UK and how it has influenced planning regimes in other countries. Despite its undoubted achievements, it is time to review the green belt as an instrument of urban planning and landscape design. The problem of the ecological impact of cities and the mitigation measures of major climate changes are at the top of the urban agenda across the world. Urban agriculture, blue and green infrastructures, and forestation are the new ecological design imperatives driving urban policymaking.

Author : Sustainable Mobility for All
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2019-10-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781734153323

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The Universal Urban Access policy paper contains best practice examples and the latest knowledge and on policies that could move countries toward sustainable mobility on the universal urban access policy sub-goal. The Global Roadmap of Action Toward Sustainable Mobility (GRA) builds on six policy papers - including this paper - whose content is made accessible and usable to all in the 'Online Tool Toward Sustainable Mobility' hosted on the SuM4All website This policy paper was prepared by the GRA's urban working group led by: Philip Turner (International Association of Public Transport - UITP) and Jacob Mason (Institute for Transportation and Development Policy - ITDP). Inputs were received from other members of the SuM4All working group on universal urban access (See acknowledgements within this document for full list).Donors supporting this effort over an 18-month period included: the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank and the Michelin Foundation.

Author : Erkin Özay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000093352

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Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design. The central case study in this book, Henderson-Hopkins, is a PK-8 campus serving as the civic centerpiece of the East Baltimore Development Initiative. This study reflects on the persistent notions of urban renewal and their effectiveness for addressing the needs of disadvantaged neighborhoods and vulnerable communities. Situating the master plan and school project in the history and contemporary landscape of urban development and education debates, this book provides a detailed account of how Henderson-Hopkins sought to address several reformist objectives, such as improvement of the urban context, pedagogic outcomes, and holistic well-being of students. Bridging facets of urban design, development, and education policy, this book contributes to an expanded agenda for understanding the spatial implications of school-led redevelopment and school reform.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2003-07-09
Category :
ISBN : 9264102825

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This report analyses measures taken in many cities regarding goods delivery in the OECD area and provides recommendations for dealing with these challenges.