The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010. The five sections of this volume review the challenges facing urban transport...

"Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of...

Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the...

Zum ersten Mal in der Menschheitsgeschichte lebt der gröt︢e Teil der Weltbevölkerung nicht mehr auf dem Land, sondern in den Städten. Die weltweite Urbanisierung geht einher mit einer rasanten sozialen und räumlichen Mobilisierung ganzer Gesellschaften. Während die Stadt- und...