Landscape with pedestrian figures

Thomas, Ray and Potter, Stephen (1977). Landscape with pedestrian figures. Built Environment Quarterly, 3(4) pp. 286–290.

URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42921149

Abstract

The changes anticipated in transport over the next fifty years will be vast and present a substantial challenge to transport and land use planners. The concept of car ownership may change as the different cost structure of electric vehicles could encourage hire and other tenure forms. Transport planning based around car ownership projects cannot cope with such concepts. A rediscovery of the more universally available modes of walking and cycling could lead the way to a new way of understanding our environment in the post industrial society.

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The changes anticipated in transport over the next fifty years will be vast and present a substantial challenge to transport and land use planners. The concept of car ownership may change as the different cost structure of electric vehicles could encourage hire and other tenure forms. Transport planning based around car ownership projects cannot cope with such concepts. A rediscovery of the more universally available modes of walking and cycling could lead the way to a new way of understanding our environment in the post industrial society.

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