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Author:   Brian Richards
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9780415261425

ISBN 10:   0415261422
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   18 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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