Beyond Mobility : Planning Cities for People and Places

Name: Beyond Mobility : Planning Cities for People and Places
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

Beyond MobilityPlanning Cities for People and Places\nAuthor(s): Erick Guerra, Robert Cervero, Stefan Al\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Island Press\nISBN-13: 9781610918343, 978-1610918343\nSynopsis\nCities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly--and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, a failure to stem traffic congestion. Every year our current transportation paradigm generates more than [url] million fatalities directly through traffic collisions. Worldwide, [url] million people died prematurely in 2010 because of air pollution, four times as many as a decade earlier. Instead of planning primarily for mobility, our cities should focus on the safety, health, and access of the people in them. Beyond Mobility is about .