Urban Form And Accessibility

Author : Corinne Mulley,John D. Nelson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780128198230

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Urban Form and Accessibility by Corinne Mulley,John D. Nelson Pdf

The growth of global urbanization places great strains on energy, transportation, housing and public spaces needs. As such, transport and land use are inextricably linked. Urban Form and Accessibility: Social, Economic, and Environment Impacts consolidates key insights from multidisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between urban form and transportation planning. Synthesizing the latest cutting-edge research, the book translates academic evidence into practice. Starting with an overview of the key concepts relevant to each discipline, the book covers critical elements such as governance, travel behavior, and technological disruption, showing how to move towards a more sustainable society for all city inhabitants. Draws on evidence-based success stories from countries around the globe Gathers global leading thinkers to provide the state-of-the-art on the topic Examines social, economic, and environmental impacts within each chapter Each chapter’s content will have the same structure for easier discoverability

Author : Corinne Mulley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0857937499

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Urban Form and Transport Accessibility by Corinne Mulley Pdf

This important collection provides a foundational understanding of the debates surrounding urban form and the ability of land use policy to deliver the preferred urban form. Professor Mulley has selected key published articles from disciplines at the interface of urban economics and transport economics. These are grouped together within a number of themes, beginning with the contribution of central place theories developed in the early twentieth century and ending with contemporary papers providing answers to current issues of cities. Professor Mulley's insightful original introduction illuminates her choice and serves to elucidate and facilitate our understanding of urban systems and their drivers.

Author : Benjamin N. Vis
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781787351073

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Cities Made of Boundaries by Benjamin N. Vis Pdf

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth to twenty-first century Winchester (UK) and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored. The methodological development of Cities Made of Boundaries will appeal to readers interested in the comparative social analysis of built environments, and those seeking to expand the evidence-base of design options to structure urban life and development.

Author : Tridib Banerjee,Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351400619

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The New Companion to Urban Design by Tridib Banerjee,Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Pdf

The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011). With chapters from a new set of contributors, this sequel offers a more comparative perspective representing multiple voices and perspectives from the Global South. The essays in this volume are organized in three parts: Part I: Comparative Urbanism; Part II: Challenges; and Part III: Opportunities. Each part contains distinct sections designed to address specific themes, and includes a list of annotated suggested further readings at the end of each chapter. Part I: Comparative Urbanism examines different variants of urbanism in the Global North and the Global South, produced by a new economic order characterized by the mobility of labor, capital, information, and technology. Part II: Challenges discusses some of the contemporary challenges that cities of the Global North and the Global South are facing and the possible role of urban design. This part discusses spatial claims and conflicts, challenges generated by urban informality, explosive growth or dramatic shrinkage of the urban settlement, gentrification and displacement, and mimesis, simulacra and lack of authenticity. Part III: Aspirations discusses some normative goals that urban design interventions aspire to bring about in cities of the Global North and the Global South. These include resilience and sustainability, health, conservation/restoration, justice, intelligence, access and mobility, and arts and culture. The New Companion to Urban Design is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students interested in cities and their built environment. It offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across a range of disciplines including urban design, planning, urban studies, and geography.

Author : Gereon Meyer,Susan Shaheen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319516028

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Disrupting Mobility by Gereon Meyer,Susan Shaheen Pdf

This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility. Written by government experts, social scientists, technologists and city planners from North America, Europe and Australia, the papers in this book address the impacts of demographic, societal and economic trends and the fundamental changes arising from the increasing automation and connectivity of vehicles, smart communication technologies, multimodal transit services, and urban design. The book is based on the Disrupting Mobility Summit held in Cambridge, MA (USA) in November 2015, organized by the City Science Initiative at MIT Media Lab, the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, the LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Politics and the Innovation Center for Mobility and Societal Change in Berlin.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1784714283

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Urban Form and Transport Accessibility by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Burton,Lynne Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136396113

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Inclusive Urban Design: Streets For Life by Elizabeth Burton,Lynne Mitchell Pdf

This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve sustainability in their designs. Part one examines the changing experiences of people in the outdoor environment as they age and discusses existing outdoor environments and the aspects and features that help or hinder older people from using and enjoying them. Part two presents the six design principles for ‘streets for life’ and their many individual components. Using photographs and line drawings, a range of design features are presented at all scales of the outdoor environment from street layouts and building form to signs and detail. Part three expands on the concept of ‘streets for life’ as the ultimate goal of inclusive urban design. These are outdoor environments that people are able to confidently understand, navigate and use, regardless of age or circumstance, and represent truly sustainable inclusive communities.

Author : Wenzhong Shi,Michael F. Goodchild,Michael Batty,Mei-Po Kwan,Anshu Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811589836

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Urban Informatics by Wenzhong Shi,Michael F. Goodchild,Michael Batty,Mei-Po Kwan,Anshu Zhang Pdf

This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.

Author : Carey Curtis,Jan Scheurer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317080084

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Planning for Public Transport Accessibility by Carey Curtis,Jan Scheurer Pdf

Bringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities spanning four continents, this book provides a "hands-on" introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools that have emerged since the mid-2000s. The Spatial Network Analysis for Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS) tool is used as a practical example to demonstrate how city planners can find answers as they seek to improve public transport accessibility. Uniquely among the new generation of accessibility tools, SNAMUTS has been designed for multi-city comparisons. A range of indicators are employed in each city including: the effectiveness of the public transport network; the relationship between the transport network and land use activity; who gets access within the city; and how resilient the city will be. The cities selected enable a comparison between cities by old world–new world; public transport modes; governance approach; urban development constraints. The book is arranged along six themes that address the different planning challenges cities confront. Richly illustrated with maps and diagrams, this volume acts as a comprehensive sourcebook of accessibility indicators and a snapshot of current policy making around the world in the realm of strategic planning for land use transport integration and the growth of public transport. It provides a deeper understanding of the complexity, opportunities and challenges of twenty-first-century accessibility planning.

Author : Jonathan C. Levine,Joe Grengs,Louis A. Merlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1501716077

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From Mobility to Accessibility by Jonathan C. Levine,Joe Grengs,Louis A. Merlin Pdf

"This book argues for a shift in transportation and land-use planning away from their historic focus on mobility and toward accessibility as their primary measure of success"--

Author : Shashikant Nishant Sharma
Publisher : BookCountry
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781463004231

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Urban Forms by Shashikant Nishant Sharma Pdf

The emergence of a renewed ‘market-oriented reasoning’ has dramatically changed the way public urban policies are discussed and carried out. This has had dramatic consequences for how urban space is planned and designed. It is not only urban ‘form’ that has changed, but also how architects and urban planners perceive the role and function of urban space.

Author : Terry R. Slater,Sandra M.G. Pinto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317170945

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Building Regulations and Urban Form, 1200-1900 by Terry R. Slater,Sandra M.G. Pinto Pdf

Towns are complicated places. It is therefore not surprising that from the beginnings of urban development, towns and town life have been regulated. Whether the basis of regulation was imposed or agreed, ultimately it was necessary to have a law-based system to ensure that disagreements could be arbitrated upon and rules obeyed. The literature on urban regulation is dispersed about a large number of academic specialisms. However, for the most part, the interest in urban regulation is peripheral to some other core study and, consequently, there are few texts which bring these detailed studies together. This book provides perspectives across the period between the high medieval and the end of the nineteenth century, and across a geographical breadth of European countries from Scandinavia to the southern fringes of the Mediterranean and from Turkey to Portugal. It also looks at the way in which urban regulation was transferred and adapted to the colonial empires of two of those nations.

Author : Chris Bruntlett,Melissa Bruntlett
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642831658

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Curbing Traffic by Chris Bruntlett,Melissa Bruntlett Pdf

In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people. Their insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing. Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.

Author : Alexander R. Cuthbert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470777527

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The Form of Cities by Alexander R. Cuthbert Pdf

The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge. Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003).

Author : Elizabeth Burton,Mike Jenks,Katie Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136804793

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Achieving Sustainable Urban Form by Elizabeth Burton,Mike Jenks,Katie Williams Pdf

Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.