The Pedestrian and City TrafficThe malign impact of the automobile on urban areas is one of today's pressing environmental problems. This book reviews the urban planning responses to motor transport in British, America and German cities and shows how a combination of enormous misjudgements of private vehicle-growth and a neglect of opportunities to develop public transport, still largely a 19th-century infrastructure, has brought modern cities to the point of economic and environmental collapse, with the prospect of a grim future. |
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A review of the history of pedestrianization and other | 8 |
Street planning in Germany and Britain from the nineteenth | 26 |
The British and German garden city movements their | 47 |
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