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Author: Paul Tranter (Honorary Associate Professor of Geography, School of Science at UNSW Canberra, Australia) ,
Rodney Tolley (Director, WALK21 and Honorary Research Fellow, Staffordshire University, UK)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Edition: Annotated edition
Weight: 0.610kg
ISBN: 9780128153161
ISBN 10: 0128153164
Pages: 422
Publication Date: 17 June 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This book challenges paradigms suggesting personal independence depends on high-speed automobile travel. The book is densely referenced and introduces key terms such as ""complete streets."" The authors also discuss the difficulty of adopting their recommendations, but this book will become an important contribution."" --© Doody’s Review Service, 2020, John T. Pierce, MBBS(MD) PhD(Navy Environmental Health Center) reviewer, expert opinion ""Slow cities give you more time. How that works goes to how we conceive and colonise planet Earth. Two new works bookend this question in a way that seems tailored to this particular historical instant. One is David Attenborough’s extraordinary new film, A Life on Our Planet, which recounts humanity’s ""greatest mistake"" – and how we can fix it. The other is a book – Slow Cities by Paul Tranter and Rodney Tolley – examining the same issue from the other end of the telescope. The 20th century was focused largely on burning the past to expand the present. For a century, speed and efficiency have been our gods. But they’re dangerous and duplicitous deities, making us destroy our cities and our planet and still not delivering the promised time savings. Our speed addiction is every bit as destructive as dependence on speed of the other sort. As with most destructive behaviours, the excuse is economic, but Tranter and Tolley point out that this too is illusory. Slow cities foster cafe economies: resilient, small-scale, healthy, with far lower health, land, infrastructure and transport costs. Plus there’s the economic benefit of actually surviving. Planners, listen up. There’s not much point in building our way out of pandemic if it drives us over the cliff of climate change. The future, if we’re to have one, will be slower, closer and inestimably more interesting."" --Farrelly, E. 2020, Build slower cities or keep careering towards disaster, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October, 2020. A Sydney Morning Herald article by Elizabeth Farrelly provides a commentary on Slow Cities: Conquering our speed addiction for health and sustainability relating the ideas in the book to David Attenborough’s new film A Life On Our Planet."
Slow cities give you more time. How that works goes to how we conceive and colonise planet Earth. Two new works bookend this question in a way that seems tailored to this particular historical instant. One is David Attenborough's extraordinary new film, A Life on Our Planet, which recounts humanity's greatest mistake - and how we can fix it. The other is a book - Slow Cities by Paul Tranter and Rodney Tolley - examining the same issue from the other end of the telescope. The 20th century was focused largely on burning the past to expand the present. For a century, speed and efficiency have been our gods. But they're dangerous and duplicitous deities, making us destroy our cities and our planet and still not delivering the promised time savings. Our speed addiction is every bit as destructive as dependence on speed of the other sort. As with most destructive behaviours, the excuse is economic, but Tranter and Tolley point out that this too is illusory. Slow cities foster cafe economies: resilient, small-scale, healthy, with far lower health, land, infrastructure and transport costs. Plus there's the economic benefit of actually surviving. Planners, listen up. There's not much point in building our way out of pandemic if it drives us over the cliff of climate change. The future, if we're to have one, will be slower, closer and inestimably more interesting. Farrelly, E. 2020, Build slower cities or keep careering towards disaster, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October, 2020. A Sydney Morning Herald article by Elizabeth Farrelly provides a commentary on Slow Cities: Conquering our speed addiction for health and sustainability relating the ideas in the book to David Attenborough's new film A Life On Our Planet.
Author Information
Paul is an Honorary Associate Professor of Geography in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, Australia, where his research focuses on two critical and related issues for modern cities: children’s well-being and the dominance of speed and mobility in urban planning and society. His research demonstrates that child-friendly modes (walking, cycling and public transport) are also the modes that (paradoxically) reduce time pressure for urban residents. He co-authored Children and Their Urban Environment: Changing Worlds (Routledge, 2011), and co-edited Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy, Volume 12 in Geographies of Children and Young People (Springer, 2017). Rodney Tolley has researched and written in the field of active, sustainable transport for over 40 years. He was Reader in Geography at Staffordshire University in the UK until 2004, and is now the Conference Director of Walk21, a global partnership of walking researchers and practitioners. He is the Founding Director of Rodney Tolley Walks and is an experienced international speaker and consultant. He makes time to walk every day.
