Slow Cities
Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability
Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy...
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Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy environments. This book examines the ways individuals and societies became dependent on transport modes that required investment in speed. Using research from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the book demonstrates ways in which human, economic and environmental health are improved with a slowing of city transport. It identifies effective methods, strategies and policies for decreasing the speed of motorised traffic and encouraging a modal shift to walking, cycling and public transport. This book also offers a holistic assessment of the impact of speed on daily behaviours and life choices, and shows how a move to slow down will - perhaps surprisingly - increase accessibility to the city services and activities that support healthy, sustainable lives and cities.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Paul Tranter , Rodney Tolley
- Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
- EAN: 9780128153161
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Tranter, Rodney Tolley
Paul is an Honorary Associate Professor of Geography in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, Australia, where his research focuses on two critical and related issues for modern cities: children's well-being and the dominance of speed and mobility in urban planning and society. His research demonstrates that child-friendly modes (walking, cycling and public transport) are also the modes that (paradoxically) reduce time pressure for urban residents. He co-authored Children and Their Urban Environment: Changing Worlds (Routledge, 2011), and co-edited Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy, Volume 12 in Geographies of Children and Young People (Springer, 2017).Rodney Tolley has researched and written in the field of active, sustainable transport for over 40 years. He was Reader in Geography at Staffordshire University in the UK until 2004, and is now the Conference Director of Walk21, a global partnership of walking researchers and practitioners. He is the Founding Director of Rodney Tolley Walks and is an experienced international speaker and consultant. He makes time to walk every day.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Slow Cities “
Part 1: Speed 1. Introduction: changing cultures of speed 2. The benefits of speed for individuals: real or illusory? 3. The benefits of speed for economy and society: Challenging the dominant narrative 4. The 'slow paradox': how speed steals our timePart 2: Health 5. Keeping the doctor away: Promoting human health through slower travel 6. Advancing environmental health in future 'slow cities 7. Slower, richer, fairer: better economic health in 'slow cities'Part 3: Strategies 8. Hit the brakes: slowing existing motorised traffic 9. Slow modes, slow design, slow spaces: new goals for traffic management and planning 10. A new vision for the city: transforming behaviours, values and cultures 11. Conclusion: re-imagining the city for a healthier future
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