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From Mobility to Accessibility - Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning (Hardcover)
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Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to
accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual
clarity as to what accessibility is and is not. But their book also
represents a major step toward transforming accessibility from a
vaguely defined aspiration into concrete measures that can guide
planning decisions. ― Journal of the American
Planning Association In From Mobility to Accessibility, an
expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models
for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan
Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an "accessibility
shift" whereby transportation planning, and the transportation
dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability
to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast.
Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which
have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make
sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the
ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people
seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of
accessibility has been around for the better part of a century,
From Mobility to Accessibility shows that the accessibility shift
is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. The book
argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of
both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many
conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its
potential for guiding development of the built environment. By
redefining success in transportation, the book provides city
planners, decisionmakers, and scholars a path to reforming the
practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities
and metropolitan areas.
General
Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2019 |
First published: |
2019 |
Authors: |
Jonathan Levine
• Joe Grengs
• Louis A. Merlin
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-1607-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-5017-1607-7 |
Barcode: |
9781501716072 |
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