Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (repost)
Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age By Paul Mees
Publisher: Earthscan Publications 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1844077403 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Earthscan Publications 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1844077403 | PDF | 2 MB
The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental and urban health disaster unless alternatives are found–it is time to move beyond the automobile age. But while public transport has worked well in the dense cores of some big cities, the problem is that most residents of developed countries now live in dispersed suburbs and smaller cities and towns. These places usually have little or no public transport, and most transport commentators have given up on the task of changing this: it all seems too hard.