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Promoting Walking and Cycling: New Perspectives on Sustainable Travel [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 240x172 mm, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Aug-2013
  • Leidėjas: Policy Press
  • ISBN-10: 144731008X
  • ISBN-13: 9781447310082
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 240x172 mm, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Aug-2013
  • Leidėjas: Policy Press
  • ISBN-10: 144731008X
  • ISBN-13: 9781447310082
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Promoting walking and cycling proposes solutions to one of the most pressing problems in contemporary British transport planning. The need to develop more sustainable urban mobility lies at the heart of energy and environmental policies and has major implications for the planning of cities and for the structure of economy and society. However, most people feel either unable or unwilling to incorporate travel on foot or by bike into their everyday journeys. This book uses innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods to examine in depth, and in an international and historical context, why so many people fail to travel in ways that are deemed by most to be desirable. It proposes evidence-based policy solutions that could increase levels of walking and cycling substantially. This book is essential reading for planners and policy makers who are developing and implementing transport policies at both national and local levels, plus researchers and students in the fields of mobility, transport, sustainability and urban planning.

Recenzijos

This pioneering book is much needed, as it calls for a new understanding of travel and a real engagement with people and policy makers so that effective actions can be taken that will transform the quality of the urban environment. Professor David Banister, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, UK This book addresses one of the major lifestyle challenges of our age - how to embed sustained and sustainable mobility within community and society. The learning assembled will be essential to the effective design and implementation of policies and interventions. Dr Andy Cope, Research and Monitoring Unit, Sustrans

Lists of maps, tables and boxes
v
About the authors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Preface xi
Section I Context
One Setting the scene and defining the problem
3(14)
Setting the scene
3(4)
Promoting sustainable mobility in Britain
7(4)
Academic perspectives
11(4)
Conclusions
15(2)
Two Where have we come from? The historical context
17(16)
How did we travel in the past and what has changed?
17(3)
The changing role of the bicycle in Britain
20(4)
The historical dominance and persistence of walking
24(6)
Conclusions: issues of path dependency
30(3)
Three The global context: how is Britain different from other places?
33(18)
Urban travel outside the UK
33(4)
Places where walking is normal
37(5)
Places where cycling is normal
42(3)
Conclusions: Britain in a global context
45(6)
Section II The research
Four Researching walking and cycling
51(16)
The UWAC approach: introduction to the data
51(5)
The case study communities
56(7)
The limitations: what the research cannot be used to show
63(4)
Five How the built environment influences walking and cycling
67(18)
Context: the built environment and sustainable travel
67(1)
The connectivity of the street network and access to facilities
68(2)
Spatial analysis of travel and transport principles and problems
70(2)
Evaluating associations between street network connectivity, access to everyday activities and walking and cycling
72(11)
Conclusions and evaluation
83(2)
Six What do people think about everyday travel in urban areas?
85(12)
Introduction
85(1)
What do people say about how they travel?
85(5)
What do people say about how they would like to travel?
90(3)
How do people feel and relate to travel?
93(2)
Conclusions
95(2)
Seven The place of walking in the urban environment
97(32)
Why people walk
97(11)
How people walk
108(7)
The barriers to walking
115(11)
Conclusions: building walking cultures
126(3)
Eight The role of cycling in the urban environment
129(26)
Why people cycle
129(8)
How people cycle
137(5)
The barriers to cycling
142(8)
Conclusions: building cycling cultures
150(5)
Section III Policy Perspectives
Nine The future of walking and cycling in British urban areas
155(16)
Strategies for making walking normal
155(5)
Strategies for making cycling normal
160(6)
Making it all happen: issues of implementation
166(5)
Ten Conclusions: issues of society, economy and sustainability
171(10)
Connecting walking and cycling to wider society
171(1)
What is working now?
171(3)
What are the risks of doing nothing?
174(1)
What could be done?
175(3)
Concluding comments
178(3)
References 181(20)
Websites 201(4)
Index 205
Colin Pooley is Professor of Social and Historical Geography in The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social geography of Britain and continental Europe since the 1800s, with recent projects focused on residential migration, travel to work and other aspects of everyday mobility including walking and cycling. He has published 12 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on these topics.