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This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalue public planning, sensitive to the social context in which it takes place.

Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, and non-motorised transport work together to reduce climate change pressures, enhance urban quality and preserve life and health. The book challenges the commonly held view that a combination of urban

A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people live, work and move? Can we keep what we love about suburban life and still save the environment? And what new methods of planning and building will be needed in the 21st century? Rejecting both economic and environmental orthodoxy, the book'

1. Cities as consumers of the world's environment -- 2. The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives -- 3. A rough road out of Rio: the right-wing reaction in the United States against global environmentalism -- 4. Contradictions at the local scale : local implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA -- 5. Britain : unsustainable cities -- 6. Sustainability and urban policy in Germany : retrospect and prospect -- 7. Japanese urban policy : challenges of the Rio Earth Summit -- 8. China's urban environmental sustainability in a global context -- 9. Agenda 21 and urban India -- 10. After Rio : environmental policies and urban planning in Sweden -- 11. Poland : on the way to a market economy -- 12. Recent Australian urban policy and the environment : green or mean? -- 13. Jakarta, Indonesia : kampung culture or consumer culture? -- 14. After Rio : urban environmental governance?

First published in 1990.