| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; 1 Introduction; Streets and Transport: Separation or Connection?; 2 What We Think About Transport and Urbanism; Mobility: A Culture and Phenomenon of Industrialisation; The Relationship Between Urban Development and Transport; A Few Hypotheses and Methodological Approaches to Clarify the Relation Between Urbanism and Transport; 3 House, Street, Network: Small-Scale Organisation and Urbanism; The Role of Small-Scale Spatial Relationships; The Street and the House in the Settlement |
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Street Networks and the IntersectionSeparation, Disintegration, and Displacement-The Strategies of Industrialisation in Transport; Social Aspects of the Organisation of the City and Transport; 4 Transport and "Social Space"; The Interaction of Transport Networks and Social Relations; Bigger and Bigger, Further and Further! The Fascination with and Implementation of the Enormous in the Previous Century; The Accelerated and Unrestricted Development of Transport Infrastructure and the Apogee of Fordist Planning; Critical or "Alternative" Transport Planning in Germany since 1970 |
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Desolate Locations or the Forgotten Basis of a Critique of ModernismPostmodern Transport Planning; The Locality in Global Competition or the City as a Point in a Transport Network; 5 Bridges in the Archipelago: Creating New Networks; 6 What Are Examples of New Transport Planning in Germany and in Europe as a Whole?; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index |
| Summary |
Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities. Urbanism and Transport shows how the automobile has come to dominate the urban landscape of cities throughout the world, providing thought-provoking analysis of the societal and ideological precursors that have given rise to these developments. It describes the transformation that occurred in urban life through the ongoing separation of social functions that began in the 1920s and has continued to produ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 19, 2015) |
| Subject |
Urban transportation.
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Traffic engineering.
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City planning.
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urban transportation.
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traffic engineering.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
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City planning
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Traffic engineering
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Urban transportation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315756714 |
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1315756714 |
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9781317631002 |
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1317631005 |
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1138798177 |
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9781138798175 |
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9781138798182 |
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1138798185 |
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9781317630982 |
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131763098X |
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9781317630999 |
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1317630998 |
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