[sustran] New Book - A Very Public Solution: Transport in the Dispersed City

SUSTRAN Network Secretariat sustran at po.jaring.my
Wed Mar 15 11:26:00 JST 2000


This new book is probably most relevant to the low-density, dispersed
cities of Australia, New Zealand and North America rather than the
lower-income cities of Asia, Latin America, Africa, etc. that are the main
focus of this list. 

Nevertheless, it is relevant to the ongoing debate here on metros.  The
prices quoted are in Australian dollars.
 
Paul
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Melbourne University Press is proud to announce the publication of a 
new book, A Very Public Solution: Transport in the Dispersed City by 
Paul Mees.


About the book

Why is public transport so poor in Australian cities? Why can't it be 
more like the fast, convenient systems in Europe?

Unlike Europeans, most urban Australians live on far-flung suburban 
blocks rather than in high-density apartments. Most urban travel is 
to widespread suburban locations rather than to the city centre. It 
is often argued that fast, efficient public transport is impossible 
in our 'dispersed' cities.

In A Very Public Solution, Paul Mees compares Melbourne's public 
transport system with the highly successful system in Toronto-a 
'dispersed' city very like Melbourne with its suburban sprawl-and 
sheds new light on a century-old debate.

This debate is particularly important now, as 'economic rationalists' 
move to privatise public transport in Australian cities. We can have 
European-style public transport, Mees argues, if our different forms 
of public transport stop competing with each other and start 
competing with the car.

A Very Public Solution is the first serious work on public transport 
planning ever published in Australia. It is essential reading for 
everyone concerned with urban sustainability and our growing traffic 
problems.

Paperback $29.95 (Australian dollars)
344 pages

ISBN: 0 522 84867 2


About the author

Dr Paul Mees lectures in Urban Transport Planning and Public 
Transport in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at 
the University of Melbourne. A frequent media commentator on public 
transport issues, he has been President of the Public Transport Users 
Association (Vic) since 1992. In 1997, he was sued by the proprietors 
of City Link, Melbourne's new private toll freeway.


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A Very Public Solution is available from all good bookshops or from 
Melbourne University Press (MUP).

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