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Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic. A significant part of the problem is the enduring popularity of the private car - still an attractive and convenient option to many, who turn a blind eye to the environmental and public health impact. Public transport has always seemed to take second place to the car, and yet alternative ways of moving around cities are possible. Measures to improve public transport, as well as initiatives to encourage walking and cycling, have been introduced in many large cities to decrease car use, or at least persuade people to use their cars in different ways. This book explores many of the measures being tried. It takes the best examples from around the world, and illustrates the work of those architects and urban planners who have produced some of the most significant models of ""transport architecture"" and city planning. The book examines the ways in which new systems are evolving, and how these are being integrated into the urban environment. It suggests a future where it could be mandatory to provide systems of horizontal movement within large-scale development, using the analogy of the lift, upon which every high-rise building depends. In so doing, future cities could evolve without dependence on the private car.

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... it presents some of the best examples of integrating high quality transport with urban form through design...The examples are eclectic, but the general message is positive and optimistic.... <br>-David Banister, Built Environment, Vol. 27 No. 4 <br> It's a brilliant analysis of how things work in the real world and the promise of new technologies. <br>- LA Architect Magazine, February 12, 2002 <br> Brian Richards' absorbing survey examines the alternatives to people-moving now being tried across the world. This is not a polemic: we have enough of those already. It is something more valuable - an anthology of case histories...How our poor, infeffectual Mayor must envy his opposite number in Paris! He should read this stimulating, judicious and surprisingly optimistic book. <br>-Alastair Best, The Architectural Review, February 2002 <br> Richards offers a vision of walkable places where the good service of elegantly designed, shared vehicleslures people from their private machines. <br>-Terence Bendixson, Independent Transport Commission, The Architect's Journal, December 20/27 2001 <br> This is not a polemic: we have enough of those already. It is something more valuable -- an anthology of case histories...read this stimulating, judicious and surprisingly optimistic book. <br>-Alastair Best, The Architectual Review ...<br> Future Transport in Cities is very much a book for stimulating ideas and broadening horizons. ... Overall, the book provides transport planners wi <br>

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Brian Richards trained as an architect at Liverpool and Yale. He has taught at the Architectural Association, and worked in Sweden, the United States, France and Morocco. He has worked as a consultant to OECD on pedestrian movement, and with London Transport on station planning and interchanges.

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