The post-automobile city
Subtitle: legal mechanisms to establish the pedestrian-friendly city
By: James A. Kushner.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Pedestrian areas -- Law and legislation -- United States; Traffic regulation -- United States; Pedestrian areas; Traffic engineering
Description: "The Post-Automobile City surveys the literature on the automobile and its impact on the design of American cities and the quality of life. In the face of worsening traffic congestion, deteriorating central cities face growing unmet housing and employment needs. Suburban zoning and other land use controls aggravate these needs by excluding apartments, failing to offer efficient public transport, and rendering access to suburban jobs dependent on expensive automobile use." "The book describes a vision of a city that is not dominated by the automobile. The post-automobile city is not car-free, but the city is redesigned to offer infrastructure for pedestrians and those who desire to live car-free. Parks, park blocks, gardens, urban landscaped pathways, pedestrian shopping streets, and inviting piazzas would replace the emphasis on surface parking lots and a tight grid of traffic. The book explores various strategies to pursue the post-automobile city, including planning, housing, redevelopment, transportation, and pedestrianization strategies. Kushner also explores various legal mechanisms that can implement the post-automobile city and explains legal constraints to various planning strategies, particularly the constraints of the Takings Clauses and the regime of American property rights."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference (p. 151-153) and index.
Table of contents: title: The automobile in American society : political economy and geography; title: Advantages of the automobile; title: Disadvantages of the automobile; title: Toward the post-automobile city; title: Post-automobile implementation strategies.