SPATIAL PLANNING, URBAN FORM AND
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
To my family
First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Spatial planning, urban form and sustainable transport.
(Urban planning and environment)
1. Transportation Planning 2. Sustainable development
3. City planning 4. Transportation and state
I. Williams, Katie
388'.0684
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spatial planning, urban form and sustainable transport / edited by Katie Williams,
p. cm. (Urban planning and environment)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-4251-8
1. City planning. 2. Urban transportation. 3. Sustainable development. 4. Land use, Urban. 5. Spatial behavior. I. Williams, Katie. ?. Series.
HT166.S636 2005
307.1'216--dc22
2004030116
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-4251-0 (hbk)
CONTENTS
Katie Williams
Tim Schwanen, Martin Dijst and Frans M. Dieleman
Joachim Scheiner and Birgit Kasper
Hans Tindemans, Dries Van Hofstraeten, Ann Verhetsel and Frank Witlox
Birgit Kasper and Joachim Scheiner
Robin Hickman and David Banister
Kees Maat and Dominic Stead
Mamoru Taniguchi and Taichiro Ikeda
Birgit Krausse and John Mardaljevic
Nicholas Low
Carey Curtis
Rocky Piro
Professor David Banister is Professor of Transport Planning at University College London, UK.
Carey Curtis is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Curtin University, Western Australia.
Professor Frans M. Dieleman is a Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Planning at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Dr Martin Dijst is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Geography and Planning at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Robin Hickman is Associate Urban Planner with the Halcrow Group Ltd, London, UK.
Taichiro Ikeda is a Civil Engineer at the Bureau of Waterworks, Hiroshima City Government Office, Japan.
Dipl.-Ing. Birgit Kasper is a Researcher in the Department of Transport Planning at the University of Dortmund, Germany.
Birgit Krausse is a Research Student at the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Nicholas Low is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Kees Maat is a Senior Researcher at OTB Research Institute for Housing, Mobility and Urban Studies at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Dr John Mardaljevic is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Dr Rocky Piro is Principal Growth Management Planner with the Puget Sound Regional Council in Seattle, USA. He also teaches Land Use Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle and Tacoma.
Dr Joachim Scheiner is a Researcher in the Department of Transport Planning at the University of Dortmund, Germany.
Dr Tim Schwanen is a Lecturer in the Department of Human Geography and Planning at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Dr Dominic Stead is a Senior Researcher at OTB Research Institute for Housing, Mobility and Urban Studies, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Dr Mamoru Taniguchi is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Okayam University, Okayama, Japan.
Hans Tindemans is a Research Assistant in the Department of Geography at Ghent University, Belgium.
Dries Van Hofstraeten is a Research Assistant in the Department of Transport and Regional Economics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Professor Dr Ann Verhetsel is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Transport and Regional Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Dr Katie Williams is Reader in Urban Sustainability at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Professor Dr Frank Witlox is Assistant Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography at Ghent University, Belgium.
The purpose of this book is to advance the debate on the relationship between urban form and sustainable transport, and to investigate the associated role of spatial planning. In all, twelve chapters present new research findings, debates and lessons from planning practice on these issues. The aim in compiling the book was to present new thinking on the links between urban form and sustainable transport from a number of different perspectives. The contributors come from a range of professional and disciplinary backgrounds, including human geography, urban planning, civil engineering, urban design, growth management, environmental planning, and transport research. The book is international in scope, with chapters from the UK, Australia, the USA, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Japan. This highlights both differences and similarities in transport planning contexts and debates.
The book forms one of a series produced under the auspices of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (IUPEA). The aim of the series is to share research findings and current best practice on a number of aspects of environmental planning. The books are devised to present and critically assess a variety of initiatives to improve environmental quality. The other books in the series are: Urban Environmental Planning: Policies, Instruments and Methods in an International Perspective (Miller and de Roo, 2004); Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement: Practicable Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development (Miller and de Roo, 2004); and Compact Cities and Sustainable Urban Development: A Critical Assessment of Policies and Plans from an International Perspective (de Roo and Miller, 2000). All are published by Ashgate.
In editing this book, I have had help from a number of people. The contributors to the book have been professional and enthusiastic throughout the project and I thank them for that. The staff at Ashgate have also been helpful and accommodating from the start. I would like to thank Daniel Kozak and Seema Dave for preparing many of the figures and tables, and Nic Dempsey for editorial assistance. I would also like to acknowledge the support of my colleagues at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development: Elizabeth Burton, Carol Dair, Lynne Mitchell, Mike Jenks, Sarah Taylor and Andy Hudson.