Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USA

In the last decades developed countries have tried to improve and strengthen public transport modes in urban regions, because they have established negative effects of car traffic on mobility: bottlenecks, increased investment in road infrastructure. New movements that have emerged in the nineties i...

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Main Author: Mojca Šašek Divjak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Urbanistični inštitut RS 2002-01-01
Series:Urbani Izziv
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Online Access:http://urbani-izziv.uirs.si/Portals/uizziv/papers/urbani-izziv-en-2002-13-02-005.pdf
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spelling doaj-7cf0f2c25081487bad046317f860a9962021-10-02T08:34:58ZengUrbanistični inštitut RSUrbani Izziv0353-64831855-83992002-01-01132126130Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USAMojca Šašek DivjakIn the last decades developed countries have tried to improve and strengthen public transport modes in urban regions, because they have established negative effects of car traffic on mobility: bottlenecks, increased investment in road infrastructure. New movements that have emerged in the nineties in USA, often coined as smart growth, emphasise efficient urban growth, which should be tied to public transport enabling rational prices of infrastructure and better spatial use. Good examples of such developments are shown, such as the San Francisco Bay area (California), Portland (Oregon) and Salt Lake (Utah).http://urbani-izziv.uirs.si/Portals/uizziv/papers/urbani-izziv-en-2002-13-02-005.pdfcities in USAlight railwaypublic transport and urbanisationsmart growthurban mobility
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Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USA
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cities in USA
light railway
public transport and urbanisation
smart growth
urban mobility
author_facet Mojca Šašek Divjak
author_sort Mojca Šašek Divjak
title Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USA
title_short Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USA
title_full Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USA
title_fullStr Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USA
title_full_unstemmed Building the city with emphasis on urban mobility – examples from USA
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publisher Urbanistični inštitut RS
series Urbani Izziv
issn 0353-6483
1855-8399
publishDate 2002-01-01
description In the last decades developed countries have tried to improve and strengthen public transport modes in urban regions, because they have established negative effects of car traffic on mobility: bottlenecks, increased investment in road infrastructure. New movements that have emerged in the nineties in USA, often coined as smart growth, emphasise efficient urban growth, which should be tied to public transport enabling rational prices of infrastructure and better spatial use. Good examples of such developments are shown, such as the San Francisco Bay area (California), Portland (Oregon) and Salt Lake (Utah).
topic cities in USA
light railway
public transport and urbanisation
smart growth
urban mobility
url http://urbani-izziv.uirs.si/Portals/uizziv/papers/urbani-izziv-en-2002-13-02-005.pdf
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