[sustran] Re: Book announcement

[Prof S L Dhingra]

May I have an outline /contents of the book please.

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, SUSTRAN Resource Centre wrote:

> This new book may be of interest to sustran-discussers. It can be
> considered an update of Newman and Kenworthy's 1989 book "Cities and
> Automobile Dependence". It contains data on 9 Asian cities: Surabaya,
> Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong and
> Tokyo. I should declare an interest here ;-).  I was involved in some of
> the Asian city data collection and analysis for the book.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
> 
> An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence in Cities 1960-1990
> 
> by  Jeff Kenworthy and Felix Laube
> with Peter Newman, Paul Barter, Tamim Raad, Chamlong Poboon and Benedicto
> Guia (Jr)
> 
> The book contains extensive primary and standardised land use,
> transportation, energy, economic and environmental data on 46 cities in the
> USA, Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia, including detailed maps on each
> city. It also provides a comparative overview analysis of automobile
> dependence in different types of cities around the world, trends between
> 1980 and 1990 in key land use and transportation features, as well as some
> policy implications which impact on how to reduce auto-dependence.
> 
> The book will be out in early 1999
> 
> Advanced orders can be placed with:
> 
> University Press of Colorado
> Fax +1 303 530 5306
> or email to Darrin Pratt, Sales and Marketing Manager:
> prattd at stripe.Colorado.EDU
> 
> 
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