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  • Overbuilt

    The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction

    par Erick Guerra ...
    The world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and triumph of engineering. President Eisenhower’s 1956 Interstate Highway Act is often praised as a model of successful bipartisanship.Today, the extensive damage wreaked by the creation of the highway system ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • Beyond Mobility

    Planning Cities for People and Places

    Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly—and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, a failure to stem traffic congestion. Every year our current transportation paradigm generates ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

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    An Historic Examination of Dealing with the Impacts of Climate Change for the Kaoping River Delta in Taiwan

    par Chen Kun Chung ...
    This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems. While most literature emphasises that the increasing magnitude of storm rainfall extends beyond the original protection standards of hydrologic facilities in highly populated delta cities. Based on the knowledge ... En savoir plus

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  • Human Transit

    How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

    par Jarrett Walker ...
    Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. ... En savoir plus

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  • Urban Green

    Architecture for the Future

    Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates ... En savoir plus

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  • The Transit Metropolis

    A Global Inquiry

    par Robert Cervero ...
    Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart?In this book, noted transportation expert ... En savoir plus

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  • Measuring Landscapes

    A Planner's Handbook

    This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and build environmentally-sound habitats. Until now, only a small portion of the relevant science has influenced the decision-making arenas where the future of our landscapes is debated and decided.The authors explain specific tools ... En savoir plus

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  • MODELING OF ASPHALT CONCRETE

    par Y. Richard Kim ...
    An Expert Guide to Developing More-Durable and Cost-Effective Asphalt PavementsWritten by distinguished experts from countries around the world, Modeling of Asphalt Concrete presents in-depth coverage of the current materials, methods, and models used for asphalt pavements.Included is state-of-the-art information on fundamental material properties and mechanisms affecting the performance of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Pedestrian and the City

    The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian footpaths and the popularity of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

    par Nabeel Hamdi ...
    Collections series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by ... En savoir plus

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  • Land Use-Transport Interaction Models

    Transport and the spatial location of population and activities have been important themes of study in engineering, social sciences and urban and regional planning for many decades. However, an integrated approach to the modelling of transport and land use has been rarely made, and common practice has been to model both phenomena independently.This book presents an introduction to the modelling of ... En savoir plus

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  • Traffic Power Structure

    The modern traffic system is ecologically unsustainable, emotionally stressful, and poses a physical threat to individuals and communities alike. Traffic is not only an ecological and social problem but also a political one. Modern traffic reproduces the rule of the state and capital and is closely linked to class society. It is a problem of power. At its core lies the notion of “automobility,” a ... En savoir plus

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