Humanizing cities through car-free city development and transformation / Rahma M. Doheim, Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag, and Ehab Kamel, editors.
"The heavy dependency on private cars has shaped the design of cities. While offering fast, comfortable, and convenient commutes, cars have become the most popular method of transportation, but are also a health crisis due to the toxic emissions they release into the atmosphere as well as the h...
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Engineering Science Reference,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Micro Perspective:
- 1. Contemplating the Street as a Place: An Approach to Restoration / Nora Osama Ahmed
- 2. Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems / Abdulrahman A. Zawawi, Nicole Porter, Christopher D. Ives
- 3. Smart Cars, Smart Cities, and Smart Sharing: The Changing Nature of Urban Public Spaces / Celen Pasalar, George D. Hallowell, Yanhua Lu
- 4. The Dawn of Walkability / Mohamed Abedo, Mohamed Salheen, Abeer Elshater
- 5. The Car-Free (Day) Movement: Transformation of Space and Place in Bandung, Indonesia / Frans Ari Prasetyo
- 6. Confronting the Conundrum of Shared Space Street Design: The Design, Development, and Delivery of the University of Central Lancashire's Masterplan / Robert Michael Turner, Ehab Kamel, Amal Ramadan
- 7. Roads to Car-Free Cities: Introducing the Three-Dimensional Balanced Transport Intervention Ladder / Margareta Friman, Lars E. Olsson
- Section 2. Macro Perspective:
- 8. Urban Topology of Car-Free Cities / Sarmada Madhulika Kone
- 9. Highway Robbery: Measuring the Land Use Priorities of a British Town / James Dyson
- 10. Success Measures for Transforming Into Car-Free Cities: Recommendations for Implementation / Rahma M. Doheim, Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag, Samaa Badawi.