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Measuring Transport Equity
Measuring Transport Equity provides a range of methods with the potential to shape transport decision-making processes, thus allowing for the adoption of more equitable transport solutions. Presenting numerous applied methods and applications of transport equity assessment, this book formalizes the disciplinary practice, definitions, and methodologies for transport equity. In addition, it recognizes the different types of equity and acknowledges that each requires its own assessment methodologies. Bringing together the most up-to-date perspectives and practical approaches for assessing equity in relation to accessibility, environmental impacts, health, and wellbeing, the book sets standards for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners for conducting social impact analyses and is an ideal reference for those involved in transport planning.
Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition
The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.
La ingeniería en la evolución de la urbanística
Con este volumen se inicia una coleccion de textos, coordinada por el Departamento de Infraestructuras del Transporte y Territorio de la UPC, cuyo objetivo es aportar una vision de la construccion de la ciudad y del territorio desde la perspectiva de la construccion de sus redes de infraestructura, actividad primordial de la ingenieria civil, con efectos cada vez mas contundentes. El libro se centra en el campo de la urbanistica y pretende cubrir un vacio en la formacion de los ingenieros, los cuales con frecuencia perciben las infraestructuras tan solo desde sus aspectos funcionales, olvidando su enorme potencial como organizadoras del territorio y su papel esencial como soporte acumulativo del espacio urbano. De forma complementaria, la presente obra colabora a asentar unas bases epistemologicas comunes con otros profesionales, fundamentalmente arquitectos y geografos, retomando asi una colaboracion que ha sido fructifera en los momentos mas relevantes de la evolucion de la ciudad actual, tal como se subraya en el libro. La coleccion que mejor responde a este proposito es Arquitex
Big House Little City
Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory and design. Leon Battista Alberti’s assertion in his famous Renaissance treatise that ‘the city is like a big house, and the house is in turn like a little city’ forms the springboard for a series of reflections on architecture’s relationship with urbanism and how their once intimate symbiosis, unravelled by International Style Modernism, can be recovered. Explicit references to Alberti’s house-city phrase have been made by figures as diverse as the architects Louis Kahn, Aldo Van Eyck, Denys Lasdun and Niels Torp and novelist Italo Calvino. B...
스마트시티 더 나은 도시를 만들다 - 4차 산업혁명이 만드는 새로운 도시의 미래
4차 산업혁명이 만드는 미래의 새로운 도시 인공지능, 사물인터넷, 빅데이터 분석 등으로 최적의 효율을 끌어내는 미래의 도시, 스마트시티. 정부는 스마트시티의 잠재력을 알아보고, 2022년까지 세계 최고 수준의 스마트시티 조성을 목표로 작년에 설립된 대통령직속 4차산업혁명위원회 산하에 스마트시티 특별위원회를 구성하였다. 에너지를 획기적으로 절약하고 도시의 혼잡을 줄이며 공공 안전을 도모하는 스마트시티는, 김현미 국토부 장관이 말했듯 국민의 삶의 질 향상에 큰 도움을 줄 것으로 보인다. 『스마트시티, 더 나...
Cerdà
This book is a tribute to the first modern urban planner and his product: the Eixample, which is today the thriving and undisputed center of the Barcelona metropolitan area. The city of Barcelona as constructed over the last 150 years on the strength of Ildefons Cerdà's 1859 'Project for the Reform and Expansion' bears living witness to the modernity of a way of thinking and making the city. An appreciaton of the values of the Eixample that have taken shape in the last century and a half affords illuminating insights into what it means to plan, design and build a city. The chapter structure is devoted to an orderly analysis in the first instance of the elements that articulate the construction of the Eixample -- the residential fabric, the grid, the street, the chamfered corner and the sewers -- and then of the city blocks and the various configurations associated with housing, industry, amenities and open spaces. The book intentionally focuses on the Eixample as a whole -- what we know as the Cerdà Eixample -- instead of confining itself to the more central Eixample traditionally associated with Modernista architecture.
Espacio y movilidad
Los desplazamientos condicionan inevitablemente la vida cotidiana de las personas por lo que supone una gran responsabilidad para quienes diseñan el territorio o gestionan su funcionamiento. No solo porque en España cada persona dedica dos horas al día de media a desplazarse, sino porque la movilidad garantiza derechos y favorece las oportunidades de la ciudadanía. De ahí que la infraestructura viaria, el transporte público o la regulación del tráfico cobren importancia; pero también la tiene el uso que se les dé. El autor realiza propuestas para mejorar los hábitos de movilidad con la convicción de que influyen en el proyecto vital de las personas y permiten aprovechar las posibilidades que la ciudad ofrece.
