The pedestrian and city traffic
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The pedestrian and city traffic
Belhaven Press, 1990
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 27 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The malign impact of the automobile on urban areas is one of today's pressing environmental problems. This book reviews the urban planning responses to motor transport in British, America and German cities and shows how a combination of enormous misjudgements of private vehicle-growth and a neglect of opportunities to develop public transport, still largely a 19th-century infrastructure, has brought modern cities to the point of economic and environmental collapse, with the prospect of a grim future. The German concept of "traffic calming" - segregation of motor vehicles from pedestrians and the development of public transport as a cheap, efficient and comfortable alternative to motor cars - seems to offer a realistic solution to the urban transport dilemma. Dr Hass-Klau, a planning practitioner, has produced an analysis of where transport planners have gone wrong and how traffic calming can be applied.
Table of Contents
- The differences - do they matter?
- the history of pedestrianization
- street planning in Germany and Britain
- the British and German garden city movements
- the Weimar republic
- urban road transport in the United States
- motorization and street layout during the Third Reich
- the British approach to urban road transport 1940s-1960s
- the development of transport policies in the FGR
- traffic calming
- the last two decades of transport planning in Britain
- protecting pedestrians and residents from the effects of motor traffic.
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