Critical Mass: Transport, Environment and Society in the 21st CenturyPluto Press, 20 sept. 1997 - 251 pages Despite demanding enormous resources, transport policies are incapable of resolving basic problems of safety, health, welfare and congestion. This book, pointing out that car-dependency is shared throughout Europe, Asia and North America, argues that the problems can only be solved globally by a shared recognition of common needs. In addition, with transport inextricabley linked with consumerism and the lifestyles that car ownership has created, the book argues that the challenge is to replace the current technology with an alternative that is sustainable and will solve the fundamental problems of poverty, inequity and social development. |
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... congestion was false and that the conventional solutions to transport problems in fact makes them worse . Traffic engineers and planners as a group could not have made this discovery unaided . It is a hallmark of professionalism , peer ...
... congestion was false and that the conventional solutions to transport problems in fact makes them worse . Traffic engineers and planners as a group could not have made this discovery unaided . It is a hallmark of professionalism , peer ...
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... congestion . In Bombay auto - rickshaws have been banned . In Jakarta in Indonesia rickshaws ( ' becaks ' ) have been banned though they still operate in the suburbs . In 1970 there were 150,000 becaks giving employment to 375,000 ...
... congestion . In Bombay auto - rickshaws have been banned . In Jakarta in Indonesia rickshaws ( ' becaks ' ) have been banned though they still operate in the suburbs . In 1970 there were 150,000 becaks giving employment to 375,000 ...
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... congestion . Congestion disrupts the core principles of distribution and manufacturing which extol the virtues of accurate timing and perfect coordination of many different flows . Time organisation created the world of logistics at the ...
... congestion . Congestion disrupts the core principles of distribution and manufacturing which extol the virtues of accurate timing and perfect coordination of many different flows . Time organisation created the world of logistics at the ...
Table des matières
Perranporth and China | 1 |
A Faustian Bargain | 17 |
Free to Choose and Free to Grow | 34 |
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