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Island Press E-ssentials Serie de eBooks

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  • Making Transit Fun!

    How to Entice Motorists from Their Cars (and onto their feet, a bike, or bus)

    de Darrin Nordahl ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    Why do people in Stockholm prefer to take the stairs over the escalator? Why do Londoners enjoy hanging out at bus stops? How do carmakers convince us to buy gas-guzzling, environmentally damaging, and wallet-draining machines? It's called the fun theory. What Darrin Nordahl illustrates in this delightful book is that transit can be just as inviting, exciting, and even seductive as the automobile, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Human Transit

    How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

    de Jarrett Walker ...
    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. ... Leer más

    $61.19 USD

  • The TTC Story

    The First Seventy-five Years

    de Mike Filey ...
    Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.The TTC Story:The First Seventy-five Years, by Mike Filey, features over one hundred magnificent black and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Shape of Green

    Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design

    de Lance Hosey ...
    Does going green change the face of design or only its content? The first book to outline principles for the aesthetics of sustainable design, The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made.In addition to examining what makes something attractive or emotionally pleasing, Hosey connects these questions with ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Urban Green

    Architecture for the Future

    de Neil B. Chambers ...
    Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Streetcars of America

    de Brian Solomon, John Gruber ...
    Series Libro 779 - Shire Library USA
    The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of America chronicles these vehicles from the earliest animal-drawn carriages to the height of their ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • The London DMS

    de Matthew Wharmby ...
    Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit double-deck one-man ... Leer más

    Antes $21.99 USD Ahora $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Trolleybus Twilight

    Britain's Last Trolleybus Systems

    de Jim Blake ...
    In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Safeguard Coaches of Guildford

    de Laurie James ...
    2014 marks the ninetieth anniversary of Safeguard, which has been in business from the mid-1920s. Laurie James uses archives, memoirs and photographs of Safeguard vehicles and its owners, the Newman family, to tell its story. Safeguard is unusual in that it is still very much a family business and has stayed true to its roots in the Guildford area. It is one of the few traditional independent ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics

    Edición de Jonathan Cowie, Stephen Ison ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics offers the first state of the art overview of the discipline of transport economics as it stands today, reflective of key research and policy. Transport is an important area of study and one which is problem rich, stimulating a great deal of debate in areas which impact on everyday lives. Much of this focuses on the practicalities of the modern-day ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Loco Spotter’s Guide

    de Stuart Black ...
    A pocket guide to 60 of the most iconic British locomotives of the last two centuries, which will have wide appeal as a handy yet detailed reference book on British locomotives.Since the 1800s locomotives have steamed, chugged and sparked their way into the nation's affections. These powerful engines were the drivers of the Industrial Revolution, and to the present day carry passengers and freight ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Planning After Petroleum

    Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil

    Edición de Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe, Anitra Nelson ...
    Thepast decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD