Slow Cities: Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128153161,0128153164
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0128153164
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128153161
- Author: Paul Tranter, Rodney Tolley
Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy environments.
Table contents:
Part 1: Speed
1. Introduction: changing cultures of speed
2. The benefits of speed for individuals: real or illusory?
3. The benefits of speed for economy and society: Challenging the dominant narrative
4. The ‘slow paradox’: how speed steals our time
Part 2: Health
5. Keeping the doctor away: Promoting human health through slower travel
6. Advancing environmental health in future ‘slow cities
7. Slower, richer, fairer: better economic health in ‘slow cities’
Part 3: Strategies
8. Hit the brakes: slowing existing motorised traffic
9. Slow modes, slow design, slow spaces: new goals for traffic management and planning
10. A new vision for the city: transforming behaviours, values and cultures
11. Conclusion: re-imagining the city for a healthier future
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