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Human transitJarrett Walker

Human transit

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"Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2024
    Human Transit, Revised Edition
    Island Press · 286 pages · 9781642833065
  • Other · English · 2024
    Human Transit, Revised Edition
    Island Press · 9781642833058
  • Other · English · 2012
    Island Press · 246 pages · 9781610911740
  • Other · English · 2011
    Island Press · 244 pages · 9781597269711
City planningLocal transitCommunity developmentUrban ecology (Sociology)Sustainable developmentEcologyEuthenicsNature and nurture