Chad Frederick

America's Addiction to Automobiles (eBook, ePUB)

Why Cities Need to Kick the Habit and How

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A provocative look at our nation's dependency on the automobile and how its potential impact on urban design will either make or break our health, economy, and quality of life. In this thought-provoking work, author and urban planning expert Chad Frederick scrutinizes the use of automobiles in cities, investigating its role in exacerbating urban inequalities and thwarting sustainability of modern society. Through a comprehensive, thoughtful discussion, Frederick illustrates how the automobile is fundamentally at odds with the very nature of cities. He shows how cars impose huge burdens on our health, equity, environment, local and national economy, and quality of life. Most of all, he shows how automobile dependency has put our entire society at risk. The book delves into the monumental role of automobiles in the development of cities after the Great Depression, impacting the American identity and affecting the way we produce and manage urban spaces. Frederick provides compelling evidence that cities with more diverse modes of transportation are greener, healthier, more prosperous, and even more enjoyable places to live than automobile-dependent cities. He identifies one institution responsible for our inability to improve our cities: the social sciences, and examines the root cause of our inability to make progress toward more multi-modal cities. In conclusion, the author offers a radical solution for moving beyond the underlying logic that forces us to create automobile-dependent cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216045137
• Artikelnr.: 68165113

Autorenporträt

Chad Frederick, PhD, is an assistant professor of geography and sustainable planning at Grand Valley State University, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the senior research associate at the Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods at the University of Louisville.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Introduction PART 1: THINKING ABOUT THE PROBLEM 1. Our
Addiction 2. Cities: The Immovable Objects 3. Automobiles: The Irresistible
Force 4. Social Science 5. Sustainability PART 2: LOOKING AT THE PROBLEM OF
AUTOMOBILE DEPENDENCY 6. A Sketch of the City 7. The Cities in the Sketch
8. Public Health 9. Airborne Emissions 10. Economic Inequality 11. Quality
of Life Summary: An Epiphany for an Automobile-Addicted Country PART 3:
SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF AUTOMOBILE-DEPENDENT CITIES 12. Applying a New Logic
Appendix Bibliography Index About the Author About the Series and Series
Editor