Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Metropolitan Transport and Land Use provides a fresh and unique perspective on metropolitan land use and transport networks, combining the disciplines of urban planning and civil engineering to challenge current planning strategies and offer frameworks to understand and evaluate policy. The book helps readers understand larger transportation-land use systems and their components, the need for change and workable solutions to urban problems.
This fully revised and updated edition includes coverage of new theories and perspectives on ICT and e-commerce, wider internatoinal focus, particuarly on developing countries, and more thorough coverage and context on travel forecasting and accesibility throughout.
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Metropolitan Transport and Land Use" is a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners and policy advisors working across transport, land use and planning. "
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As cities around the globe respond to rapid technological changes and political pressures, coordinated transport and land use planning is an often targeted aim.
Metropolitan Transport and Land Use, the second edition of Planning for Place and Plexus, provides unique and updated perspectives on metropolitan transport networks and land use planning, challenging current planning strategies, offering frameworks to understand and evaluate policy, and suggesting alternative solutions.
The book includes current and cutting-edge theory, findings, and recommendations which are cleverly illustrated throughout using international examples. This revised work continues to serve as a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy advisors working across transport, land use, and planning.