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- catalog abstract ""Noted transportation expert Robert Cervero provides an on-the-ground look at more than a dozen mass transit success stories, introducing the concept of the "transit metropolis"--A region where a workable fit exists between transit services and urban form. The author has spent more than three years studying cities around the world, and he makes a compelling case that metropolitan areas of any size and with any growth pattern - from highly compact to widely dispersed - can develop successful mass transit systems."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11036955.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Noted transportation expert Robert Cervero provides an on-the-ground look at more than a dozen mass transit success stories, introducing the concept of the "transit metropolis"--A region where a workable fit exists between transit services and urban form. The author has spent more than three years studying cities around the world, and he makes a compelling case that metropolitan areas of any size and with any growth pattern - from highly compact to widely dispersed - can develop successful mass transit systems."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-448) and index.".
- catalog description "The case for the transit metropolis. Transit and the metropolis: finding harmony -- Transit and the changing world -- Public policies and the sustainable transit metropolis -- Adaptive cities: creating a transit-oriented built form. Orbiting the city with rail-served satellites: Stockholm, Sweden -- The hand-shaped metropolis: Copenhagen, Denmark -- The master-planned transit metropolis: Singapore -- The entrepreneurial transit metropolis: Tokyo, Japan -- The hybrids: adaptive cities and adaptive transit. Making transit work in the land of the Autobahn: Munich, Germany -- Busways and the hybrid metropolis: Ottawa, Canada -- Creating a linear city with a surface metro: Curitiba, Brazil -- Strong-core cities: transit and central city revitalization. Creating frist-class transit with transit-first policies: Zurich, Switzerland -- Trams, trains, and central city revitalization: Melbourne, Australia -- Adaptive transit: tailoring transit to save cities and suburbs. Adaptive light rail transit: Karlsruhe, Germany -- Guided busways: Adelaide, Australia -- Hierarchical transit: Mexico City, Mexico -- The transit metropolis of tomorrow. Drawing lessons and debunking myths -- North America's aspiring transit metropolises.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 464 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Transit metropolis.".
- catalog identifier "1559635916 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Transit metropolis.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Island Press,".
- catalog relation "Transit metropolis.".
- catalog subject "388.4 21".
- catalog subject "City planning.".
- catalog subject "Commuting.".
- catalog subject "HE305 .C474 1998".
- catalog subject "Land use Planning.".
- catalog subject "Local transit Planning.".
- catalog subject "Urban transportation Planning.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The case for the transit metropolis. Transit and the metropolis: finding harmony -- Transit and the changing world -- Public policies and the sustainable transit metropolis -- Adaptive cities: creating a transit-oriented built form. Orbiting the city with rail-served satellites: Stockholm, Sweden -- The hand-shaped metropolis: Copenhagen, Denmark -- The master-planned transit metropolis: Singapore -- The entrepreneurial transit metropolis: Tokyo, Japan -- The hybrids: adaptive cities and adaptive transit. Making transit work in the land of the Autobahn: Munich, Germany -- Busways and the hybrid metropolis: Ottawa, Canada -- Creating a linear city with a surface metro: Curitiba, Brazil -- Strong-core cities: transit and central city revitalization. Creating frist-class transit with transit-first policies: Zurich, Switzerland -- Trams, trains, and central city revitalization: Melbourne, Australia -- Adaptive transit: tailoring transit to save cities and suburbs. Adaptive light rail transit: Karlsruhe, Germany -- Guided busways: Adelaide, Australia -- Hierarchical transit: Mexico City, Mexico -- The transit metropolis of tomorrow. Drawing lessons and debunking myths -- North America's aspiring transit metropolises.".
- catalog title "The transit metropolis : a global inquiry / Robert Cervero.".
- catalog type "text".