Overview
- Broadens understanding of urban transport issues across emerging economies
- Maximizes readers insights into the socio-economic and ideological causes that underpin urban transport characteristics
- In-depth case study approach illustrates complex urban sustainability issues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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About this book
This book aims to fill a gap in the transport literature that is crucial to understanding the needs of a large portion of the world’s urban population, especially in view of the southward shift in economic power. Readers will develop a better understanding of urban transport problems and policies in nations where development levels are below those of richer countries (mainly in the northern hemisphere) but where the rate of economic growth is often increasing at a faster rate than the wealthiest nations.
Reviews
- “This is one of the most informative, interesting, and depressing academic books I have read in a long time.” John Pucher (Rutgers University), Transport Reviews,
- “A tremendous strength of this volume is the discussion of social equity and gender constraints on travel in every country, which facilitates using these case studies in courses on social justice in planning. […] By focusing on developing economies, this edited volume offers a more comprehensive overview of the challenges to planning sustainable transportation than is typically seen in this discipline.” Ren Thomas (Dalhousie University), Journal of Planning Education and Research,
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dominic Stead is an Associate Professor of urban and regional development at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His current research interests include comparative urban and regional governance, and policy transfer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies
Editors: Dorina Pojani, Dominic Stead
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43851-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43849-8Published: 28 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82924-1Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43851-1Published: 18 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 301
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 107 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Transportation, Environmental Management, Economic Geography, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Sustainable Development