Connecting Places, Connecting People
A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century
What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion? The era of car-based planning has led to the disconnection of people and place in developed countries, and is rapidly doing so in the developing countries of the Global South. The unfolding mega-trend in technological innovation, while adding new patterns of future living and m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-315-44922-7
- EAN: 9781315449227
- Produktnummer: 24135347
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 10'673 KB
- Abbildungen: 58 farbige Fotos, 12 farbige Zeichn., 10 farbige Tabellen
Über den Autor
Reena Tiwari is a professor of Built Environment at Curtin University, Australia. She has published extensively on space psychology and place making; urban ethnography and community engagement; sustainable transport and urbanism. Fundamental to her work on urban transport and place making is the philosophy of democratic urbanism and a model of enquiry that is ethnographic, collaborative and trans-disciplinary, and has the goal of facilitating change and adaptation for all involved in the process.
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