This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in...

Introduction -- How motor vehicles take over cities -- The costs of sprawl -- Three cities that chose livability over sprawl -- Linking transportation and land use policies -- Erasing the incentives to sprawl -- Restructuring government institutions -- Creating constituencies for change --...