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Book Review: Governing Compact Cities: How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport by Philipp Rode
Philipp Rode’s new book, Governing Compact Cities: How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport, looks at the institutional arrangements that enable sustainable cities. It starts with the recognition that in many cases, sustainable cities are also compact cities, characterised by mixed-use neighbourhoods and by transport systems oriented towards public and non-motorised modes of transport. But cities in countries with similar income levels can be at different stages of densification and motorisation. There are sprawling cities in North America and the Gulf region where up to 90 per cent of trips are still made by car, and other cities (mostly in Western Europe) that are re-densifying and where car ownership and use have started to decline. Demographic and social factors alone cannot explain these differences – urban policy and governance must also play a role.
Book Review: Governing Compact Cities: How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport by Philipp Rode
Philipp Rode’s new book, Governing Compact Cities: How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport, looks at the institutional arrangements that enable sustainable cities. It starts with the recognition that in many cases, sustainable cities are also compact cities, characterised by mixed-use neighbourhoods and by transport systems oriented towards public and non-motorised modes of transport. But cities in countries with similar income levels can be at different stages of densification and motorisation. There are sprawling cities in North America and the Gulf region where up to 90 per cent of trips are still made by car, and other cities (mostly in Western Europe) that are re-densifying and where car ownership and use have started to decline. Demographic and social factors alone cannot explain these differences – urban policy and governance must also play a role.
Book Review: Governing Compact Cities: How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport by Philipp Rode
Anciaes, PR (author)
2018-06-13
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/06/1.
Miscellaneous
Electronic Resource
English
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710
Governing compact cities : how to connect planning, design and transport
| UB Braunschweig | 2018
Online Contents | 2000
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