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A Future of Polycentric Cities : How Urban Life, Land Supply, Smart Technologies and Sustainable Transport Are Reshaping Cities / by Cole Hendrigan

1st ed. 2020

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 377 p. 108 illus)

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-981-13-9169-9

978-981-13-9168-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-981-13-9169-9

GF1-900

304.2     Ähnliche Literatur

thema: RGC ; bicssc: RGC ; bisacsh: SOC015000

LOC-SH: Sociology, Urban ; Human Geography ; Urban geography.

Chapter 1 Freedom in Cities -- Chapter 2 Smart Cities and Smart Citizens: Are They the Same? -- Chapter 3 Global City Shaping -- Chapter 4 Research and Results -- Chapter 5 Analysis and Discussion -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Transit Oriented Region -- Bibliography -- Appendices

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In this book, Dr Cole Hendrigan examines the options for sustainable transport and land-use planning based on building heights, mixes of land-use, transportation mode capacity and others to build the next generation of parks, housing, commercial and retail spaces along high-capacity rail corridors. Following the paradigm of ‘Transit Oriented Development’, Dr Hendrigan provides unique knowledge and insights on how to best make the transition towards more sustainable and livable cities, offering a practical method to better integrate transport and urban development to this end