Transport Sociology (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Transport Sociology: Social Aspects of Transport Planning 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
Acknowledgements 6
Biographical Notes 10
General Introduction 14
Summary 16
Transport Sociology 20
Part I: Social Impacts of Infrastructure 30
Chapter 1. Introduction 32
Social Impacts 32
Project and Environment in a Process of Development 33
The Floating Neighbourhood 34
Assessment and Aid 35
Summaries of the Selected Papers 37
Notes 38
Literature 39
Chapter 2. Neighborhood Protest of an Urban Highway 42
Brookline-Elm—Its Social Character 44
Protestors and Nonprotestors 45
The Effectiveness of Protest 49
Summing Up 51
Notes 51
Chapter 3. Urban Freeways and Social Structure—Some Problems and Proposals 52
The City as a Social System 55
Psychological Impact of Physical Disruption 57
Physical Disruption and Social Functioning 58
Conclusions and Proposals 60
Notes 62
Chapter 4. Evaluating the Social and Environmental Impacts of Transport Investment 64
Introduction 64
Conceptual Model of Environmental Impacts 65
The Comparative Nature of Impact Assessment 76
Strategies for Impact Assessment 77
Conclusion 79
Appendix A: The Negative Impacts of Transport Systems An Incomplete List
Notes 80
Part II: The Street 82
Chapter 5. Introduction 84
Summaries 86
Notes 88
Literature 89
Chapter 6. The Recapture of the Street? 90
Socio-economic Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 90
Power is in the Streets 90
The Street went Downhill 92
Things Vanished 93
Transport Differentiating and Killing the Street 94
Mass-production, Mass Consumption and Mass-movement Against the Street 96
Cleaning the Street Socially and Physically 98
The Class Street 100
A New Future 102
Notes 103
Chapter 7. The Environmental Quality of City Streets: The Residents' Viewpoint 106
Study Streets 107
Traffic 107
Population 107
Environment 108
Study Design 109
Traffic Hazard 110
Stress, Noise, and Pollution 111
Social Interaction 116
Privacy and Home Territory 119
Environmental Awareness 123
Study Conclusions 123
Discussion of Conclusions 128
Environmental Proposals 129
Environmental Studies 130
Research Implications 131
Notes 132
Literature 132
Chapter 8. On the Sociology of Car Traffic in Towns 134
Traffic as a Social System 134
Criteria of Traffic Behaviour 135
Determinants of Traffic Behaviour 136
Restructuring Traffic Facilities 143
Traffic and Town Planning 144
Notes 144
Part III: Mobility or, Rather, the Lack of It 146
Chapter 9. Introduction 148
Transport Deprivation as a Social Problem 148
Need 150
Summaries 152
Notes 154
Literature 154
Chapter 10. What about People in Regional Science? 156
Notes 171
Chapter 11. Not a Carborne Democracy 172
The Synonymity Movement and Vehicles 173
Universal Car Ownership 174
Household Car Use 175
Balance between Public and Private Transport 176
Conclusions 179
Postscript 180
Notes 180
Chapter 12. Mobility Constraints of the Carless 182
The Carless Population 182
Trip-making Constraints 183
Environmental Constraints 188
Concluding Remarks 192
Notes 193
Chapter 13. Unfreedom Road 196
Literature 202
Part IV: Ideology 204
Chapter 14. Introduction 206
Summaries 207
Notes 209
Literature 209
Chapter 15. Ideological and Policy Perspectives of Urban Transportation 212
The Seven Ideological Dimensions 213
Conclusion 221
Notes 221
Chapter 16. Mass Transport and Class Struggle 224
Types of Transport 224
Volkswagen Concept 227
Planning Measures 228
Transport Strike 231
Notes 234
Index 236
Other Titles in the Series 246