Urban Form, Transport and Sustainability
Urban Form, Transport and Sustainability
“Humanity is involved in an unprecedented experiment: we are turning ourselves into an urban species” (Girardet, 1999)
Questions about the relationship of urban form to modal choice have been vigourously contested ever since they were first discussed. However, in the wake of the Stern Report they have gained new depth and resonance. The imperative of attaining sustainability has re-energised the debate about the roles of both public and personal transport in the future of our cities. As urban areas across Europe develop policy strategies addressing challenges from congestion to social exclusion, must a strong public transport system be considered a necessary component of sustainable communities? Are emergent private transport technologies close enough to market, and if so, at what cost to social sustainability and urban vitality? Is the city still an appropriate spatial scale at which to conduct the debate about transport and sustainability, or should we focus on urban form within the context of city-regions? How do we balance the tensions between mobility and accessibility to achieve sustainable life as an urban species?
The Urban form, transport and sustainability stream will give particular consideration to current research on the themes of:
- Compact cities and urban intensification
- Public versus private transport, managing congestion
- Sustainable communities and sustainable cities
- City-regions: form and functions
Contact: Julie Clark [Email: urban_analysis@yahoo.co.uk]
Urban Form, Transport and Sustainability
1. Paulus Teguh Aditjandra: Neighbourhood Design Perception and Travel Behaviour in Tyne and Wear, North East England, United Kingdom
2. Glen Bramley: (ii) Urban Form & Social Sustainability: Planning for Happy, Cohesive etc
3. Malcolm Burns: The Outward Expansion of the Built-Up Areas of Madrid and Barcelona into their Surrounding Metropolitan Regions (1986-2004)
4. : 'Motionscape' as an Indicator of Urban Vitality: Rethinking on the Late-Modernist Urbanism in a Need for Speed
5. Julie Clark: All About the Money? Social Inclusion and the Car
6. Scott Davidson: Applying Transit Orientated Development for Glasgow
7. Anthony Fuchs: Vital City Form
8. Bernadette Hanlon: The Decline of Inner Suburbs: the new Suburban Gothic in the Unitied States
9. Philippe Koch: Political Determinants of Good Public Transport: Governance Structures and Effectiveness
10. Douglas Lindsay: The Functionality of Scotland’s City-Regions
11. Raymond McMaster: Capturing Financial Contributions from Private Developers towards Transport Infrastructure – The Edinburgh Tram Scheme
12. Thomas S Nielsen: Commuting to Work and De-Concentration in Metropolitan Areas of Copenhagen, Paris and Prague
13. Stephan Nieweler: Public Transport Orientated Development: Lessons from North America and Asia
14. Allison Orr: Retailing and the City: an Investigation into the Relationships between Urban Form and Retailing in Edinburgh
15. Oana-Liliana Pavel: Planning the Romanian Urban System: from City to City-Region
16. Daniel Seidenglanz: Central Europe: Urban Typology Based on Airport Location and Accessibility
17. Matti Siemiatycki: Traffic Jam: the Politics and Practice of Congestion Mitigation
18. Pierre Stämpfli: To Study the Effect Large Infrastructures Impose on Urban Development and to Generate a Model using the Example of the Canton of Geneva
19. Ivàn Tosics: City-Regions in Europe: the Potentials and the Realities
20. Martin Watts: Modelling Commuting Flows in the Sydney Commuting Area