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Lifelines of Our Society
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives. Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures—focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred years—that considers all their many paradoxes. He illustrates three aspects of infrastructure: their de...
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.
Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change
Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change discusses various forms of public participation in connection to sustainable mobility, transport planning, policy, health, infrastructure, and active travel, creating a comprehensive analysis relevant for both practitioners and researchers who operate within the transport field.
Invisible Bicycle
The Invisible Bicycle brings together different insights into the social, cultural and economic history of the bicycle and cycling in historical eras of ubiquitous bicycle use that have remained relatively invisible in bicycle history. It revisits the typical timeline of cycling’s decline in the 1950s and 1960s and the renaissance beginning in the 1970s by bringing forth the large national and local variations, varying uses and images of the bicycle, and different bicycle cultures as well as their historical background and motivations. To understand the role, possibilities and challenges of the bicycle today, it is necessary to know the history that has formed them. Therefore The Invisible Bicycle is recommended also to present-day practitioners and planners of bicycle mobility. Contributors are: Peter Cox, Martin Emanuel, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus, Nicholas Oddy, Harry Oosterhuis, William Steele, Manuel Stoffers, Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai, Frank Veraart.
Metropolitan Research
Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this scope of disciplinary - and increasingly also interdisciplinary - approaches that allows metropolitan research to address recent societal challenges of urban life, such as mobility, health, diversity or sustainability.
Killed by a Traffic Engineer
Fixing the carnage on our roadways requires a change in mindset and a dramatic transformation of transportation. This goes for traffic engineers in particular because they are still the ones in charge of our streets. In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture. Killed by a Traffic Engineer is ultimately hopeful about what is possible once we shift our thinking and demand streets engineered for the safety of people, both outside and inside of cars. It will make you look at your city and streets--and traffic engineers--in a new light and inspire you to take action.
Städtische Mobilitätskulturen und Wohnumzüge
Thomas Klinger analysiert das Verhalten von Menschen, die nach einem Wohnumzug mit einer andersartigen Mobilitätskultur in Kontakt kommen, also etwa aus einem autoorientierten in ein fahrradfreundliches Umfeld wechseln. Dabei steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, ob die Anpassung an die neue Umgebung (Adaptionshypothese) oder die Weiterführung erlernter Verhaltensmuster (Sozialisationshypothese) überwiegt. Der Autor untersucht die Ursachen dieser Verhaltensänderungen, wobei neben raumstrukturellen Faktoren und Wohnstandortpräferenzen insbesondere das Erklärungspotential städtischer Mobilitätskulturen identifiziert werden soll. Im Anschluss werden die Ergebnisse mithilfe von multiplen Regressionsmodellen zusammengeführt.
Life-Oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy
This book presents a life-oriented approach, which is an interdisciplinary methodology proposed for cross-sectoral urban policy decisions such as transport, health, and energy policies. Improving people’s quality of life (QOL) is one of the common goals of various urban policies on the one hand, while QOL is closely linked with a variety of life choices on the other. The life-oriented approach argues that life choices in different domains (e.g., residence, neighborhood, health, education, work, family life, leisure and recreation, finance, and travel behavior) are not independent of one another, and ignorance of and inability to understand interdependent life choices may result in a failur...
Handbuch Verkehrspolitik
Kein Politikfeld ist mit so hohen Investitionen verbunden wie die Verkehrspolitik. Neue Straßen, neue Bahntrassen, aber auch Flughäfen bestimmen das Gesicht von Städten und Regionen. Wer sind die treibenden Kräfte für Verkehr in modernen Gesellschaften? Was kann Verkehrspolitik angesichts eigendynamischer ökonomischer und sozialer Entwicklungen überhaupt leisten? Welche Rolle spielen im föderalen System die Kommunen und die Regionen, in denen der größte Teil der Verkehrsleistung erbracht wird? Wie sehen nicht intendierte Effekte der Verkehrspolitik aus? Wie wirken Herausforderungen wie der Klimawandel, das Altern und Schrumpfen der Gesellschaft und die Krise der öffentlichen Haush...
