ABSTRACT A scientific consensus has recently emerged suggesting that the dominant
twentieth century paradigm of solving transportation congestion problems by building more …

Questions of how the design of cities can respond to the challenge of climate change
dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the US and Canada. With …

Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the
meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of …

Problem: When the First National Conference on City Planning took place in Washington,
DC, 100 ago, the delegates failed to foresee the consequences of automobility and …

The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and
the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often …

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of
racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure …

Using the framework of 'automobility'as outlined by Sheller and Urry, this article uses the
bicycle tour to explore one way the middle class mediates the automobile's dominance of …

Cities often require developers to widen streets or make other transportation improvements
to account for the traffic impacts of new building. This article examines one parcel-level traffic …

Contemporary professional transport planning and policy continue to focus on resolving the
car's place in contemporary urban society. Transport planners really only have two viable …

City planner Harland Bartholomew rose in prominence along with the popularity of scientific
city-efficient planning during the early to mid-twentieth century. In the pursuit of solutions to …