TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doheim,Rahma M.
AU  - Farag,Alshimaa Aboelmakarem
AU  - Kamel,Ehab
TI  - Humanizing cities through car-free city development and transformation
T2  - Advances in mechatronics and mechanical engineering (AMME) book series
SN  - 9781799835073
AV  - HT166 .H87 2020
U1  - 307.1 H87 2020 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Hershey, PA
PB  - IGI Global Publisher of Timely Knowledge
KW  - City planning
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Urban transportation
KW  - Planning
KW  - Land use, Urban
KW  - Sustainable urban development
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Highway robbery: measuring the land use priorities of a British town / James Dyson, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom -- Contemplating the street as a place: an approach to restoration / Nora Ahmed, Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC), Egypt -- Topology of car-free cities: re-imagining urban planning models for tomorrow / Sarmada Kone, Sri Venkateshwara College of Architecture, Jnafau, Hyderabad, India -- Smart cars, smart cities, and smart sharing: the changing nature of urban public spaces / Celen Pasalar, North Carolina State University, United States, George Hallowell, North Carolina State University, United States, Yanhua Lu, North Carolina State University, United States -- Rescuing cities in Latin America: pedestrian associations taking back the city from car oriented development / Enrique Lopez Oropeza, Politecnico di Milano, France -- Greenways and sustainable urban mobility systems / Abdulrahman Zawawi, King Abdulaziz University, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Nicole Porter, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Christopher Ives, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom -- Enhancing the health of urban residents as a result of encouraging physical activity / Sawsan Mokhtar, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Egypt -- The car free (day) movement: transformation of space and place in Bandung, Indonesia / Frans Ari Prasetyo, Independent Researcher, University of Toronto -- Urban fabric and the social logic of urban corridors / Mohamed Abedo, German University at Cairo, Egypt, Mohamed Salheen, Ain Shams University, Egypt, Abeer Elshater, Ain Shams University, Egypt
N2  - "This book explores the concepts of car-free cities and city humanization as possible solutions to reduce the deteriorating effect on the environment and the community. The publication discusses the urban initiative to implement pedestrianization and humanization of cities and public spaces to promote the concept of car-free living"--
ER  -