Work/Life City Limits

Work/Life City Limits
Author: H. Jarvis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2005-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230503306

This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives in post-industrial cities, taking close account of the social and environmental impact of this balancing act. The book features cross-national and inter-city comparative household level research, highlighting significant contradictions underpinning the nature of production, consumer expectation, work-life balance and urban environmental quality.

Urban Access for the 21st Century

Urban Access for the 21st Century
Author: Elliott Sclar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317933893

This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this. Policies need to be more inclusive of the accessibility needs of the urban poor. Change requires redesigning the existing public finance systems that support urban mobility. The aim is to diminish their embedded biases towards automobile-based travel. Through a series of chapters from international contributors, the book brings together expertise from different fields. It shows how small changes can incentivize large positive developments in urban transport and create truly accessible cities.