Download e-book for kindle: The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry by Robert Cervero

Around the realm, mass transit is suffering to compete with the personal car, and in lots of locations, its industry percentage is quickly eroding. but a couple of metropolitan components have in fresh many years controlled to mount competitively priced and resource-conserving transit providers that offer decent possible choices to automobile commute. What units those locations apart?

 

In this booklet, famous transportation specialist Robert Cervero offers an on-the-ground examine greater than a dozen mass transit good fortune tales, introducing the idea that of the "transit metropolis"—a quarter the place a conceivable healthy exists among transit providers and concrete shape. the writer has spent greater than 3 years learning towns worldwide, and he makes a compelling case that metropolitan components of any dimension and with any development pattern—from hugely compact to generally dispersed—can increase winning mass transit systems.

 

Following an introductory bankruptcy that frames his argument and descriptions the most matters, Cervero describes and examines 5 types of transit metropolises, with twelve in-depth case stories of towns that symbolize each one variety. He considers the main classes of the case experiences and debunks largely held myths approximately transit and town. additionally, he stories the efforts underway in 5 North American towns to mount transit courses and discusses the criteria operating for and opposed to their good fortune. towns profiled comprise Stockholm; Singapore; Tokyo; Ottawa; Zurich; Melbourne; Mexico urban; Curitiba, Brazil; Portland, Oregon; and Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

The Transit city presents functional classes on how North American towns can deal with sprawl and haphazard street improvement by way of developing profitable mass transit structures. whereas many books speak about the necessity for a sustainable transportation method, few may be able to current examples of winning platforms and supply the equipment and instruments had to create one of these procedure. This e-book is a different and worthy source for transportation planners and execs, city planners and architects, policymakers and scholars of making plans and concrete design.