Register Login

Journal of Transport and Land Use

Search
PDF

Published

2012-12-26

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2012)

Section

Articles

License

Authors who publish with JTLU agree to the following terms: 1) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License 4.0 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 2) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. 3) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

How to Cite

Banister, D. (2012). Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.v5i3.388

Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to achieve sustainability

David Banister

Oxford University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.v5i3.388

Keywords: Transport, Land Use, Development, Megacities, Urban planning

Abstract

This paper takes a historical perspective on how cities have become less sustainable in terms of transport, but it will argue that many positive changes have taken place even before the current concerns over CO2 and oil. There seem to be many more opportunities for further change through the encouragement of high-quality city-based lifestyles that do not require high levels of carbon-based mobility. But it is in the newly emerging “megacities” that the main problems occur, as there is a discontinuity between the slow growing, stable, and well-structured cities of the west and the rapidly growing, unstable, and unstructured cities of the east.

Author Biography

David Banister, Oxford University

Professor of Transport Studies, School of Geography

Current Issue

The Journal of Transport and Land Use is published and sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies and is the official journal of the World Society for Transport and Land Use (WSTLUR).

Contact JTLU | ISSN: 1938-7849
All contents licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0. 2019 Journal of Transport and Land Use

The Journal of Transport and Land Use is indexed in DOAJ, Google Scholar, JSTOR, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Social Sciences Citation Index, and Scopus.

Image of University M logo with text Libraries Publishing