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- Provides unique knowledge and insights on how to best make the transition towards more sustainable and livable cities
- Offers a practical method on how to better integrate transport and urban development to this end, following the paradigm of ‘Transit Oriented Development’
- Points to key criteria and design ideals, and provides a useful method clearly built to be applied in concrete situations
- Will broadly appeal to students and researchers in in planning and urban design, as well as professional engineers, planners, architects and landscape architects. Also decision makers at the municipal level
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Book Title: A Future of Polycentric Cities
Book Subtitle: How Urban Life, Land Supply, Smart Technologies and Sustainable Transport Are Reshaping Cities
Authors: Cole Hendrigan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9169-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9168-2Published: 05 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9171-2Published: 05 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9169-9Published: 19 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 377
Number of Illustrations: 108 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology