Designing for Urban Health and Well-being by Revisiting Proximity, Walkability, and Accessibility

Can planning and design influence health and well-being in urban settings? Even though it was the public health issues faced by industrial cities that originally gave rise to the field of city planning, their paths have diverged over the years.However, how human settlements are planned, designed, and built can drastically improve or harm human...

Overview - Emerging Urban Perspectives

Glancing into Future Cities—City Futures

Prologue - Future Cities - City Futures

Epilogue—Towards a Transdisciplinary Discussion on Future Cities and City Futures

Cycling Economics

Cycling is increasingly receiving attention in research and policy and practice, in many cities and regions in the world. The focus is mainly on cycling infrastructure and effects on travel behavior and health. The economics of cycling have not received a lot of attention yet. This chapter gives an overview of the current state of knowledge...

Policy implications of the potential carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission and energy impacts of highly automated vehicles

This chapter explores the extent to which the adoption of highly automated vehicles (AVs) will lead to carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission reduction in the future. Additionally, policy implications are given. Based on existing literature, this chapter shows that the adoption of AVs will result in a modest improvement of CO₂...