Research Catalog

Title

Beyond mobility : planning cities for people and places / Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, and Stefan Al.

Author

Cervero, Robert

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Guerra, Erick
• Al, Stefan

Description

xiii, 278 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 26 cm

Summary

"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 more than 1.25 million fatalities directly through traffic collisions. Worldwide, 3.2 million people died prematurely in 2010 because of air pollution, four times as many as a decade earlier. Instead of planning primarily for mobility, our cities should focus on the safety, health, and access of the people in them. Beyond Mobility is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places. This is as important, if not more important, than expediting movement. A stronger focus on accessibility and place creates better communities, environments, and economies. Rethinking how projects are planned and designed in cities and suburbs needs to occur at multiple geographic scales, from micro-designs (such as parklets), corridors (such as road-diets), and city-regions (such as an urban growth boundary). It can involve both software (a shift in policy) and hardware (a physical transformation). Moving beyond mobility must also be socially inclusive, a significant challenge in light of the price increases that typically result from creating higher quality urban spaces. There are many examples of communities across the globe working to create a seamless fit between transit and surrounding land uses, retrofit car-oriented suburbs, reclaim surplus or dangerous roadways for other activities, and revitalize neglected urban spaces like abandoned railways in urban centers. The authors draw on experiences and data from a range of cities and countries around the globe in making the case for moving beyond mobility. Throughout the book, they provide an optimistic outlook about the potential to transform places for the better. Beyond Mobility celebrates the growing demand for a shift in global thinking around place and mobility in creating better communities, environments, and economies"--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• City planning > Social aspects
• City planning > Environmental aspects
• Urban transportation
• Land use, Urban
• City planning > Economic aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Urban recalibration -- Better communities -- Better environments -- Better economics -- Urban transformation -- Suburban transformations -- Transit-oriented development -- Road contraction -- The global south -- Emerging technologies -- Toward sustainable urban futures.

ISBN

• 9781610918343
• 1610918347

LCCN

99975454290

OCLC

• ocn982091884
• 982091884
• SCSB-9085428

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries