Theory of urban fabrics: Planning the walking, transit/public transport and automobile/motor car cities for reduced car dependency

Town Planning Review

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 429-458

  Newman, Peter ^a   Kosonen, Leo ^c   Kenworthy, Jeff ^b  

^a Department of Sustainability ^*  (United States)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automobile motor car city; Strategic planning transport; Transit public transport city; Urban fabrics; Walking city

Indexed keywords

CAR USE; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT; WALKING;

EID: 84976412322     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2016.28     Document Type: Article

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