The focus of this course is on the environmental impacts of alternative transportation and urban land-use policies, taught from a policy maker’s perspective. It begins with a historical overview, examining the profound changes in the structure of cities following the advent of the automobile. The course then focuses on present and future environmental impacts—air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, urban sprawl—resulting from the exponential growth in motor vehicles, particularly in developing country cities, and examines alternative scenarios for mitigating these impacts. Additional topics include the role of public transit in the United States and the differing approaches to transportation and land-use planning in various European cities; in-depth case studies of the success stories in urban transit in the developing world (e.g., Bogotá, Curitiba, and Singapore); and the range of options for transporting the two billion new urban inhabitants to be added to the world’s cities in the next quarter-century. The course also examines policies to create compact, regional cities through the integration of transportation and land-use planning and focuses on next and future steps, including congestion costs and congestion pricing, intelligent transportation systems, new automobile technologies, and so forth.
i need this class to be taught again - let's hope it's a very popular one so Ellen Brennan-Galvin will offer it again soon... who's with me?
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When do you actually get to register for classes?
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