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Flexible Urban Transportation
Jonathan L. Gifford
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Description for Flexible Urban Transportation
Hardcover. "Flexible Urban Transportation". Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 543.
Flexible Urban Transportation is a sweeping reassessment of American highway and transit policy. For the last half-century, this policy has been fixated on planning, designing and constructing the Interstate highway system, and then coping with the creative destruction it wrought. Aggressive construction of the Interstate divided and destroyed urban communities, and sparked a furious backlash, the Freeway Revolt . The Interstate also facilitated widespread suburbanization of housing, retail and employment, which in turn gave rise to the tightly integrated, flexible supply chains characteristic of modern industry. American society faces a profound dilemma. The private automobile has never been ... Read more
Flexible Urban Transportation is a sweeping reassessment of American highway and transit policy. For the last half-century, this policy has been fixated on planning, designing and constructing the Interstate highway system, and then coping with the creative destruction it wrought. Aggressive construction of the Interstate divided and destroyed urban communities, and sparked a furious backlash, the Freeway Revolt . The Interstate also facilitated widespread suburbanization of housing, retail and employment, which in turn gave rise to the tightly integrated, flexible supply chains characteristic of modern industry. American society faces a profound dilemma. The private automobile has never been ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780080440538
SKU
V9780080440538
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for Flexible Urban Transportation
[This book's] main theme - the professional practice of transport planning - deserves an in-depth look. [...] a very useful summary and comment on the thinking behind the historical development of institutional transport planning [...] Gifford has opened the discussion around a sensible organization of transport planning ... a valuable contribution to this ongoing and necessary debate. ... Read more