Browsing by Subject "Book Review"

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    Book Review: Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2011) Levinson, David
    The author reviews the book Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It by Randal O'Toole (Cato Institute Press, 2010).
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    Book review: Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, by Jarrett Walker
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2012) Watkins, Kari Edison
    This paper reviews the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, by Jarrett Walker (Island Press, 2012).
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    Book Review: Planning for Place and Plexus
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2008) Handy, Susan L.
    This article reviews the book Planning for Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport by David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek (Routledge, New York; 2008).
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    Book Review: The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Huang, Arthur
    The author reviews the book The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making by Eran Ben-Joseph (MIT Press, 2005).
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    Book review: Transport for suburbia: Beyond the automobile age, by Paul Mees
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2012) Schoner, Jessica E.
    This book review summarizes and evaluates Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age, by Paul Mees (Earthscan Publishing, 2010). The argument in Transport for Suburbia is that density is not a necessary prerequisite for an effective transit system, and that transfers can be used as a tool to expand the scope of a transit network. Mees presents this argument and his suggestions for improving transit service through a series of narratives about car culture, land use, and best and worst case transit system scenarios.
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    Book Review: Urban Structure Matters
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Chen, Xueming
    The author reviews the book Urban Structure Matters by Petter Naess (Routledge, 2006).
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    The influence of land use and mobility policy on travel behavior: A comparative case study of Flanders and the Netherlands
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2015) De Vos, Jonas
    Numerous transportation studies have indicated that the local built environment can have an important effect on travel behavior; people living in suburban neighborhoods travel more by car than people living in urban neighborhoods. In this paper, however, we will analyze whether the regional land use has an important influence on travel behavior by comparing two regions with a varying land-use pattern: Flanders (Belgium) and the Netherlands. The different land-use pattern seems to have influenced travel behavior in both regions. An active spatial planning policy in the Netherlands, clustering activities in urban surroundings, appears to have realized a sustainable travel behavior, as a substantial share of residents frequently walk, cycle or use public transportation. The rather passive spatial planning in Flanders, resulting in urban sprawl, seems to stimulate car use. The applied mobility policy also has an impact on the travel behavior and land use of the Flemings and the Dutch. Infrastructure is concentrated in Dutch urban environments, whereas Flanders has a more widespread network of infrastructure and cheap public transportation, resulting in a further increase of suburbanization.
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    Montréal at the Crossroads
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2013) Anderson, Paul
    Montreal at the Crossroads is an overview of the issues surrounding the provincial government's proposal to rebuild the aging Turcot Interchange. In a broad sense, it discusses whether it is appropriate to rebuild aging highway infrastructure or whether the need for highway infrastructure renewal should be an opportunity to make major changes in the urban transportation network. Each chapter was written by different authors and contributes a separate view of the Turcot Interchange and the proposals to rebuild it.