ACCESS FOR ALL: TRANSPORTATION AND GROWTH

The view is put forward that our cities are being strangled by the technology that made them possible. The authors examine the problem through historical analysis and specific case history. They argue that while improved transport enabled the horrifically overcrowded cities of the last century to expand and attain a balance between individual privacy and the economies of scale, the same process resulted in growth and dispersion of the urban areas which caused individuals in their search for privacy to lose the concept of community. An attempt is made to understand the complex processes involved in order to reverse the trend and recreate a working version of the city. /TRRL/

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  Penguin Books Limited

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• Authors:
  • Schaeffer, K H
  • Sclar, E
• Publication Date: 1975

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 182 p.
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Penguin Books Limited
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
  • ISSN: 0140-21805X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Case studies; Central business districts; City planning; Environment; History; Social values; Technology; Transportation; Urban areas; Urban development; Urban growth
• Old TRIS Terms: Community values; Transportation technology
• ITRD Terms: 9139: Accessibility; 2455: Environment; 9096: History; 1054: Network (traffic); 311: Town centre; 354: Town planning; 313: Urban area; 374: Urban development
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; History; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149110
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM