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Title: Transportation for Livable Cities by Vukan R. Vuchic ISBN: 0-88285-161-6 Publisher: CUPR Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very well done/ Excellent Book
Comment: I am also a college student writing my Honor's thesis on a similar topic. It is complete and well written.
Rating: 1
Summary: Socialism through transportation
Comment: I am a college student studying Transportation Engineering and was required to read this book for a class. I did not enjoy reading it. A quick summary of the book would be that the free market cannot decide what is best for us and that the government should tell us how we should travel. Raise taxes on cars and subsidize transit. His ideas are very socialistic.
The author compares the U.S. to many countries in Europe and without fail says they are better than us. The author is from Europe and I say if he likes Europe so much better why doesn't he go back?
I would not recomend this book unless you have socialist tendancies.
Rating: 5
Summary: Clear Thinking
Comment: Professor Vuchic is the embodiment of clear thinking and common sense. His is a voice of reason in the midst of all the propaganda and ideology of the transportation wars that pop up in every city where people begin to question the dominance of the car culture. He's heard all the anti-rail arguments and debunks them one by one.
This is an eminently readable and well organized book by one of the foremost transportation authorities in America. He compares the US to our peer countries in Europe and Asia and shows how their policies have produced far more livable cities. Our present sorry state is largely due to massive government subsidies and policies favoring the car culture. These have the effect of discourging transit, walking, and bicycling.
Vuchic says change will only come through a combination of "transit incentives" and "auto disincentives", especially the latter. The biggest obstacles are political, not technological.
We must start by creating and promoting the "livable city" vision for our metropolitan regions, then planning an intermodal transportation system to fulfill this vision. Most US cities omit or neglect these steps, focusing primarily on road networks to meet car demand.
If you know that something is terribly wrong with your city and that cars have a lot to do with it, this book will tell you why and what you can do about it.
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Title: The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry by Robert Cervero ISBN: 1559635916 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: A New Deal for New York by Mike Wallace ISBN: 0972315519 Publisher: Bell & Weiland Publishers/Gotham Center Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Community-Based Participatory Research for Health by Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein, Budd Hall ISBN: 0787964573 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Food Politics : How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle ISBN: 0520240677 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Urban Transportation Systems by Sigurd Grava ISBN: 0071384170 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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