Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas
ISBN-10
3319990918
ISBN-13
9783319990910
Category
Social Science
Pages
129
Language
English
Published
2018-09-29
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Fabio Duarte, Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot

Description

This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and policy instruments (planning, consultation and market mechanisms for example) were implemented in each case. Through concepts coming from policy studies and sociology, for example, such as path dependency, institutional culture and transaction costs, the three cities are also looked at in a broader perspective in order to better understand how they deal differently with their common challenges.

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