TY - BOOK AU - Hendrigan,Cole ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - A Future of Polycentric Cities: How Urban Life, Land Supply, Smart Technologies and Sustainable Transport Are Reshaping Cities SN - 9789811391699 AV - GF1-900 U1 - 304.2 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Singapore PB - Springer Singapore, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Human geography KW - Urban geography KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Human Geography KW - Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) KW - Urban Studies/Sociology N1 - Chapter 1 Freedom in Cities -- Chapter 2 Smart Cities and Smart Citizens: Are They the Same? -- Chapter 3 Global City Shaping -- Chapter 4 Research and Results -- Chapter 5 Analysis and Discussion -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Transit Oriented Region -- Bibliography -- Appendices N2 - In this book, Dr Cole Hendrigan examines the options for sustainable transport and land-use planning based on building heights, mixes of land-use, transportation mode capacity and others to build the next generation of parks, housing, commercial and retail spaces along high-capacity rail corridors. Following the paradigm of ‘Transit Oriented Development’, Dr Hendrigan provides unique knowledge and insights on how to best make the transition towards more sustainable and livable cities, offering a practical method to better integrate transport and urban development to this end UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9169-9 ER -