Shocking the Suburbs
Subtitle: Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City
Contributors: Sipe, Neil
Series: Briefings; Briefings
Publisher: University of NSW Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781742230665; 9781921410321
Subjects: Transportation; City planning; Automobiles; Fuel consumption; Petroleum products; Prices
Description: Petrol prices have risen to historic highs, disrupting western economies and stretching household budgets. Australia's overwhelming reliance on the private motor car for urban mobility makes our cities among the most oil-dependent in the world, and to date there has been little analysis of the potential social, economic and political impacts of rising fuel costs on our cities. Shocking the Suburbs considers current urban transport problems, and identifies how new planning strategies and broader public policy can address oil vulnerability.
Table of contents: title: Contents; An unfamiliar world; Solving housing problems by creating suburbs; Towards uneasy oil; Shocking the city: Higher fuel and housing costs in the suburbs; Oil and politics:The impact of rising fuel costs on suburban constituencies; Oil-proofing Australian cities:Transport and planning solutions to oil vulnerability; Aftershocks: Facing the challenge of oil vulnerability in Australia's cities; Acknowledgments; Notes.