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The Indonesian Town Revisited
The Indonesian Town Revisited reflects the growing interest in new towns and the urban sprawl around Jakarta, the economic crisis and its effects on the construction sector. Furthermore, a new direction in research is related to the growing interest in middle range cities. Some well-established topics are also covered, such as kampung improvement, urban conservation and migration.
Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects
The governance and evaluation of ‘megaprojects’ – that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations – is receiving increased attention. However, megaproject evaluation has hitherto largely adopted a linear-rationalist perspective to explain the frequent failure of such projects to meet the ‘iron triangle’ of performance criteria: delivering on time, within budget, and according to specifications. This approach recommends greater control and accountability to remedy megaproject ‘pathologies’. Drawing on empirical examples mainly from the transport se...
Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport
As cities become increasingly congested, current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy in energy use, high in economic and environmental cost, and exacerbating inequity between those who can access high-speed travel and those who cannot. Good urban planning develops human-scale cities and encourages modes such as bicycles, increased zones exclusive to pedestrians within cities, and changed fiscal policies to incentivize public over private transport. Equally, it requires good engineering design to manage road use. Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport brings together contributions from leading international experts in urban planning, transport, and governance who suggest changes to make our cities more sustainable in the face of climate change. All professionals working in transport and engineering and planning students will find an overview of a broad field in this interdisciplinary collection of essays.
Urban Transport
Rietveld (transport economics, Vrije Universiteit and Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands) collects important work in the field of transport from the 1950s through the 1990s, with special focus on urban areas where transportation problems are most acute. The book covers such topics as transport demand, supply of public transport services, and external costs of transport. Policy aspects such as urban transport policy and deregulation are explored, as well as areas such as parking, non-motorized transport, and urban transport in developing countries. Some specific topics examined include optimal bus size, the costs of air pollution from motor vehicles, the value of time spent in travel, efficient transportation infrastructure policy, temporal and spatial equilibrium analysis of commuter parking, and bicycle traffic in China. There is no subject index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Land-use/Transport Planning in Hong Kong
First published in 1998, this volume is certain to be the definitive work about the practice of land-use and transport planning in Hong Kong. Dimitriou and Cook explore the historical developments, current issues and problems, policy and planning responses and new directions. Hong Kong has experienced remarkable economic growth as the ‘Gateway to China’ and its land-use has become a model for other cities in the region and for China as a whole.
Urban Transport Planning
Different development circumstances warrant different urban transport approaches. Harry Dimitrou suggests a more appropriate concept of transport planning for developing countries.
Urban Transport
A bibliography of over 3000 entries on urban transport. Urban transport is defined as the movement of people and materials through, or within, the environs of towns and cities, irrespective of mode, and encompasses commercial, public, private, pedestrian and cycle traffic. This text provides a compilation of economic, social, political, legal and development literature on the subject.
