Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability

This paper takes a historical perspective on how cities have become less sustainable in terms of transport, but it will argue that many positive changes have taken place even before the current concerns over CO2 and oil. There seem to be many more opportunities for further change through the encoura...

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Main Author: David Banister
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2012-12-01
Series:Journal of Transport and Land Use
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Online Access:https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/388
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description This paper takes a historical perspective on how cities have become less sustainable in terms of transport, but it will argue that many positive changes have taken place even before the current concerns over CO2 and oil. There seem to be many more opportunities for further change through the encouragement of high-quality city-based lifestyles that do not require high levels of carbon-based mobility. But it is in the newly emerging “megacities” that the main problems occur, as there is a discontinuity between the slow growing, stable, and well-structured cities of the west and the rapidly growing, unstable, and unstructured cities of the east.
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spelling doaj-art-cd73fdaf41414de6829e05ab51b7b4d22025-08-20T02:03:46ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingJournal of Transport and Land Use1938-78492012-12-015310.5198/jtlu.v5i3.388117Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainabilityDavid Banister0Oxford UniversityThis paper takes a historical perspective on how cities have become less sustainable in terms of transport, but it will argue that many positive changes have taken place even before the current concerns over CO2 and oil. There seem to be many more opportunities for further change through the encouragement of high-quality city-based lifestyles that do not require high levels of carbon-based mobility. But it is in the newly emerging “megacities” that the main problems occur, as there is a discontinuity between the slow growing, stable, and well-structured cities of the west and the rapidly growing, unstable, and unstructured cities of the east.https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/388TransportLand UseDevelopmentMegacitiesUrban planning
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Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability
Journal of Transport and Land Use
Transport
Land Use
Development
Megacities
Urban planning
title Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability
title_full Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability
title_fullStr Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability
title_full_unstemmed Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability
title_short Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability
title_sort viewpoint assessing the reality transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability
topic Transport
Land Use
Development
Megacities
Urban planning
url https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/388
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