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List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Alan Altshuler
- United States
- Chapter 2: Reimagining and Reconfiguring Streets in New York City
- David Luberoff
- Chapter 3: Coalition Politics and Expansion of the Transit System in Los Angeles
- David Luberoff
- Chapter 4: Commercial Ride-Sharing: From "Rogue" to Mainstream in San Francisco
- Onesimo Flores Dewey, Lisa Rayle
- Emerging Democracies
- Chapter 5: From Jitneys to Bus Rapid Transit: Negotiating Change in Mexico City
- Onesimo Flores Dewey
- Chapter 6: Transportation Reform and the Transformation of Central Seoul
- Onesimo Flores Dewey
- Western Europe
- Chapter 7: Congestion Charging in Stockholm
- Diane E. Davis, Amy Rader Olsson
- Chapter 8: Complementary Strategies to Reduce Car Dependence in Vienna
- Ralph Buehler, John Pucher, Alan Altshuler
- Chapter 9: From City Streets to Metropolitan Scale in Paris and the Île-de-France Region
- Charlotte Halpern, Patrick Le Galès
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- Chapter 10: Urban Transport and Transformative Change: Reflections on the Relationships
- between Processes and Outcomes
- Diane E. Davis
- Contributing Authors and Advisory Board Members
About the author
Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, is author of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century, Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America, and Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Politics in Urban Spaces. Her published works examine the relations between urbanization and national development, comparative international development, the politics of urban development policy, and conflict cities.
Alan Altshuler is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. He has variously served as dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School, and Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation. His previous books include The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation and Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (with David Luberoff).
Summary
Transforming Urban Transport offers a detailed analysis of the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations in eight major, democratically governed cities around the world.
