Overview
- Never before has the failure of mobility policy to ethical, professional, and educational aspects been compared
- Contains many innovative projects for both North American and European cities
- An “international” comparative and treats the issue at a general and theoretical level
- Politicians and activists will find interesting clues about how to act
- Opens a new perspective and will foster new resarch in unexplored fields
- It opens to a new perspective and will foster new research in unexplored fields
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Mobility and Environment calls for a mobility revolution which does not simply mean taking a bus instead of a car: it implies a dramatic shift in the political debate from a technical to a political culture. The author introduces his book by disputing “non-political” Sustainable Development policies which are among the major culprits for the conservatism in environmental policies.
For at least forty years, urban mobility policies, based on compulsive infrastructure building, have failed both in satisfying transportation demand and in coping with high environmental impacts. Nonetheless decision-makers keep employing the same professionals and therefore they act as shepherds who commit their sheep in the wolf’s custody. Corrado Poli treats mobility policy as a political, ethical, social and educational issue rather than as a mere civil engineering one.
Mobility and Environment challenges some deeply entrenched professional and economic monopolies which negatively affect urban and transportation planning in North America and Europe, and argues the old idea which bounded transportation and communication. A real environmentalist effort in traffic planning should begin from new technologies and from the analysis of citizens preferences. A series of new projects are presented which include mobility demand reduction and focus on democracy in planning.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobility and Environment
Book Subtitle: Humanists versus Engineers in Urban Policy and Professional Education
Authors: Corrado Poli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1220-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1219-5Published: 30 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8214-2Published: 17 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1220-1Published: 28 June 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 202
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Development, Philosophy of Science