Urban Access for the 21st Century
eBook - ePub

Urban Access for the 21st Century

Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Urban Access for the 21st Century

Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure

About this book

This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this. Policies need to be more inclusive of the accessibility needs of the urban poor. Change requires redesigning the existing public finance systems that support urban mobility. The aim is to diminish their embedded biases towards automobile-based travel.

Through a series of chapters from international contributors, the book brings together expertise from different fields. It shows how small changes can incentivize large positive developments in urban transport and create truly accessible cities.

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Yes, you can access Urban Access for the 21st Century by Elliott Sclar,Måns Lönnroth,Christian Wolmar,Elliott D. Sclar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Volkswirtschaftslehre & Stadtplanung & Landschaftsgestaltung. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of contributors
  8. Ackowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 An introduction to the challenge of financing urban access
  11. 2 Towards a political-economics of finance for urban access
  12. 3 Social inequalities in urban access: better ways of assessing transport improvements
  13. 4 Access as a social good and as an economic good: is there a need for a paradigm shift?
  14. 5 Opportunities for transport financing through new technologies: state of the art and research needs
  15. 6 Assessing the diversity of schemes for financing urban access and mobility in preparation for a comparative study
  16. 7 Public transport: the challenge of formal and informal systems
  17. 8 Reflections on the usefulness of accessibility as a lens through which to consider the evaluation of transportation and land use policies and projects
  18. 9 Accessibility and transportation funding
  19. 10 Technology and information technology: living with and paying for sustainable access
  20. 11 Conclusions: the end of the paradigm
  21. Index