| 专著题名: | Mobility :A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future |
| 作者: | J. Whitelegg
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| 出版者: | Straw Barnes Press
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| 出版年: | 2015
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| 页数: | 245
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| 国家: | 瑞典
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文摘要: | This book sets out exactly what can be done to convert all towns and cities into attractive places in which to live and work.
John Whitelegg argues for a complete transformation of how transport planning, as well as urban and rural planning, is dealt with in the UK citing best practice examples from other countries such as Zurich and Vienna's public transport system and Sweden's Vision Zero policy which has the aim of zero deaths and zero serious injuries in the road traffic environment. He also emphasises the importance of dealing with air pollution from traffic sources which kills over 40,000 each year in Britain and concludes that this is a massive failure of public policy and can and must be reduced to zero.
The book presents a very different argument to the ones normally seen where local authorities and campaign groups try to increase walking and cycling. He suggests that whilst there is still scope to increase these very healthy and inexpensive means of moving around but only if we have serious polices to reduce traffic volume, create car-free streets and residential areas and have a total 20mph speed limit on all streets where people live.
The need to reduce traffic volumes and traffic speeds is described in some detail and the book illustrates how this can be done on a short time scale and by following an inexpensive policy pathway. Traditional transport policy that does not focus seriously on traffic reduction is very expensive and the alternatives are much better for reducing the costs of running cities. |
| URL: | https://www.sei-international.org/publications?pid=2815
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| 资源类型: | 专著
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/2238
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候减缓与适应
气候变化事实与影响
气候变化与战略
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J. Whitelegg. Mobility :A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future[M]:Straw Barnes Press,2015-01-01.
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