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