Xiaohong Chen, Tanfeng Li, and Ye Li
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028504
- eISBN:
- 9789882206717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028504.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter analyses the objectives and methodology of the Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD) regional transportation strategy. It also recommends four strategic measures in regional transportation ...
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This chapter analyses the objectives and methodology of the Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD) regional transportation strategy. It also recommends four strategic measures in regional transportation development: a regional infrastructure network, an integrated transportation system, a regional common transportation market, and a regional transportation information network.Less
This chapter analyses the objectives and methodology of the Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD) regional transportation strategy. It also recommends four strategic measures in regional transportation development: a regional infrastructure network, an integrated transportation system, a regional common transportation market, and a regional transportation information network.
Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501716072
- eISBN:
- 9781501716102
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501716072.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
This book flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. It argues for an “accessibility shift” whereby transportation planning, and the transportation ...
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This book flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. It argues for an “accessibility shift” whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, the book shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. It argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding development of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decision makers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.Less
This book flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. It argues for an “accessibility shift” whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, the book shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. It argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding development of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decision makers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.
Louise Young
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520275201
- eISBN:
- 9780520955387
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520275201.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Urban population growth of the interwar triggered an expansion of the built environment of the city. Proliferation of regional rail transformed the economic geographies of urban space and the ...
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Urban population growth of the interwar triggered an expansion of the built environment of the city. Proliferation of regional rail transformed the economic geographies of urban space and the relationship between cities and their surrounding towns and villages. Depicted as the triumphant march of progress, accounts of urban expansionism echo narratives of Japanese colonialism: the juggernaut of urban modernity expanding inexorably outward, social Darwinism, and the inevitable decline of the countryside. In fact, the surrounding countryside did not disappear but was radically transformed into the hinterland of a regional urban center, a process that led to the rise of the suburb as a constitutive element in the socio-spatial form of the modern city.Less
Urban population growth of the interwar triggered an expansion of the built environment of the city. Proliferation of regional rail transformed the economic geographies of urban space and the relationship between cities and their surrounding towns and villages. Depicted as the triumphant march of progress, accounts of urban expansionism echo narratives of Japanese colonialism: the juggernaut of urban modernity expanding inexorably outward, social Darwinism, and the inevitable decline of the countryside. In fact, the surrounding countryside did not disappear but was radically transformed into the hinterland of a regional urban center, a process that led to the rise of the suburb as a constitutive element in the socio-spatial form of the modern city.
