Slow Cities: Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability

Slow Cities counterintuitively demonstrates that by reducing the speed of travel within cities, residents save time and create a more sustainable, livable and healthy city. Utilizing research from multiple disciplinary perspectives, it identifies effective methods, strategies and policies for decreasing the speed of motorized traffic and how to move towards a transport modal shift to walking, cycling and public transit. The book offers a holistic assessment of the impact of speed on daily behavior and life choices, examining speed's impact on the interaction between transport and land use, housing density, and the distribution of city commerce, services and schools. Includes cases from cities throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Africa and AustralasiaUtilizes evidence-based research accessibility written for interdisciplinary learningAdopts a broad view of health, including the health of individuals, neighborhoods and communities, as well as economic health and environmental health of citiesProvides learning aids such as chapter objectives, end-of-chapter discussion questions, text boxes, list of valuable websites, and an annotated bibliography INDICE: Part 1: Speed 1. The Culture of Speed 2. Speed in Transport Modeling and Planning 3. The Benefits of Speed: The Accepted View 4. A Critique of the Benefits of Speed 5. How Speed Steals Time Part 2: Health 6. Promoting Human Health 7. Advancing Economic and Environmental Health 8. Lessons from Children Part 3: Strategies 9. Individual Responses 10. Societal Responses 11. Automated Vehicles 12. Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-12-815316-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés