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Car country : an environmental history
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ISBN: 0295992158 0295804475 9780295804477 9780295992150 Year: 2012 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,


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Competition for Public Transport Services : Institutional Framework and Empirical Evidence of Bus Services in Germany
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ISBN: 3790829498 3790828017 9786613698346 3790828025 1280787953 Year: 2012 Publisher: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica,

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This book evaluates the successes, failures, and factors that influence the competition for public bus transport services. Using Germany as a case study, the author explains the dichotomous system of a market with licenses for commercial services, where operators are granted exclusivity, and licenses for non-commercial services, where supplementary direct subsidies are tendered out by public transport authorities. The empirical analysis is based on primary data usually not publicly available, and supplemented by numerous expert interviews. The book aims to provide a basic understanding of the players and their options, offer insights into the German model, and make policy recommendations for those whose goal is to increase competition.


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Cycle space : architectural & urban design in the age of the bicycle
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ISBN: 9789462080041 9462080046 Year: 2012 Publisher: Rotterdam : NAi 010 publishers,

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Hoe de fiets de stad kan redden? Van New York tot Singapore en van Parijs tot São Paolo: in alle grote steden van de wereld nemen fietsers de straat in bezit naar het voorbeeld van Amsterdam en Kopenhagen. Van fietskoeriers met doodsverachting tot modebewuste jongeren op hippe karretjes of gewoon forenzen op weg naar hun werk: fietsen is meer dan alleen een alternatieve vervoersmogelijkheid. Het is praktisch, het is groen, het is cool. Cycle Space is het eerste boek dat de internationale fietsbeweging verbindt met misschien wel de grootste ontwerpuitdaging van de 21ste eeuw: het realiseren van een duurzame stad. Dit boek analyseert stedelijke fietsculturen en laat zien hoe deze tot succesvolle ontwerpstrategieën kunnen worden omgezet. Hoogleraar architectuur en fietsfanaat Steven Fleming laat zien dat we moeten begrijpen waarom mensen voor de fiets kiezen, om te zien hoe de fiets kan bijdragen aan het terugdringen van luchtverontreiniging, reistijden, gezondheidsrisico’s en het opslokken van steeds meer land door de stad. Met fietsportretten van acht grote steden toont Cycle Space hoe de fietser de stad kan redden. How the bicycle can save the cit? From New York to Singapore, from Copenhagen to Sydney, from Chicago to Amsterdam, and from São Paolo to Budapest, there is a groundswell of cyclists taking to the streets of major cities. Whether death-defying bike messengers, hipsters with a taste for cycle chic, or commuters simply cycling to work, cycling is viewed as more than just an alternative. It’s practical. It’s cool. It’s green. With portraits of major cities and their cycling cultures, Cycle Space is the first book to view the city through the lens of the bicycle, and offer a new ways of designing better cities. Cycle space is where architecture and urban design can begin to optimise conditions for cycling, and take inspiration from the aesthetics and ethics of cycling as well. It is where cities can begin reducing emissions, commute times, ill-health and sprawl. In Cycle Space, architecture professor and cycling nut Steven Fleming argues that understanding why people are choosing bikes is key for discovering the full potential of the bicycle as a transformative force in the design of our cities.


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Urban Environment : Proceedings of the 10th Urban Environment Symposium
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ISBN: 9400725396 940079990X 1283455978 9786613455970 940072540X Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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The 10th Urban Environment Symposium (10UES) was held on 9–11 June 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden. UES aims at providing a forum on the science and practices required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the urban environment. The UES series is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS).   Papers by leading experts are presented in sections on  Sustainable Urban Development and Urban Planning; Air Quality and Human Health; Urban Waters; and Urban Soil Contamination and Treatment.

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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses. --- Environmental protection -- Congresses. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Congresses. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City planning --- Environmental protection --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Environmental aspects --- Urban transportation --- Sustainable development --- City transportation --- Metropolitan transportation --- Municipal transportation --- Transportation, Urban --- Environment. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Air pollution. --- Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. --- Urbanism. --- Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. --- Air --- Air contaminants --- Air pollutants --- Air pollution --- Air pollution control --- Air toxics --- Airborne pollutants --- Atmosphere --- Contaminants, Air --- Control of air pollution --- Pollutants, Air --- Toxics, Air --- Pollution --- Air quality --- Atmospheric deposition --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Control --- Government policy --- Management --- Transportation --- Architecture. --- Environmental protection. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Urban environment

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