LIVRO USADO - The Pedestrian and City Traffic

- Idioma: INGLÊS

- Tipo de Capa: BROCHURA

- Número de Páginas: 277

- Ano de Edição: 1990

- Número de Edição: 1º

- Dimensões: 22.5 x 15 x 1.5cm;

- ISBN: 9781852932978

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The malign impact of the automobile on urban areas is one of today´s pressing environmental problems. This book reviews the urban planning responses to motor transport in British, America and German cities and shows how a combination of enormous misjudgements of private vehicle-growth and a neglect of opportunities to develop public transport, still largely a 19th-century infrastructure, has brought modern cities to the point of economic and environmental collapse, with the prospect of a grim future. The German concept of "traffic calming" - segregation of motor vehicles from pedestrians and the development of public transport as a cheap, efficient and comfortable alternative to motor cars - seems to offer a realistic solution to the urban transport dilemma. Dr Hass-Klau, a planning practitioner, has produced an analysis of where transport planners have gone wrong and how traffic calming can be applied.