Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in traffic management and transit congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies.? In Gridlock: Congested Cities; Contested Policies; Unsustainable Mobility; transport consultant John C. Sutton explores how two competing discourses in transport policy and planning practice? ndash; convivial and competitive ideologies ndash; lead to contradictory solutions and a gridlock in policy as well as on transport systems.Gridlock examines current transport and mobility in a geographical; social; political-economy and technological context.? The challenges of rising congestion are highlighted through case studies from the UK; the USA; and OECD countries.? Sutton offers readers a vision of a sustainable mobility future through the concept of mobility management; combining mobile communication and information technology with logistics to match travel demand to the capacity of transport systems.Essential reading for transport professionals and students of transportation planning and policy; Gridlock offers a unique manifesto for sustainable mobility settlement; addressing the pressing problems of growing populations and congestion while looking ahead to a more sustainable future.
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292 of 311 people found the following review helpful. Kept me up all night!!!!By George DeMarkThis downloaded onto my Kindle at around midnight last night and I was awake until 5 or 6 reading it (Im a little blurry right now but have the day off). First off. this is one of the best memoirs Ive ever read in my life. I have been reading the headlines about it and they all seem to focus on sex. sex. sex. And sure. Carly Simon has had her affairs with various guys over the years. but I cant help but wonder if the memoir of a male music star would have those same headlines. Im guessing the answer is not. What about her music? What about how her voice is the one you hear wherever you go in this world (last week I heard You Belong to Me in the supermarket. and I Havent Got Time for the Pain in my doctors office!).But back to the book - it is not what the headlines make you think it is. It is a serious. beautifully written account of the life of a popular but under appreciated artist. that was charmed in parts. deeply romantic in others and downright upsetting elsewhere. It is riveting too - I cant think of many other books that would have had me reading straight through for five hours until it started getting light out. Mostly it is an account of a difficult marriage. that is to say. between her and James Taylor. They were the king and the queen of the 1970s. A lot of people have wondered what it was really like between them and in this book we finally have the answer. But Carly Simon is always respectful and loving towards him. even though she is also very very frank about what went on. The book ends in the early 80s which makes me wonder if there will be a second book! All in all. this book puts you under a spell that will make you want to play all her music all over again and remember what it was like back then. Highly recommended!132 of 142 people found the following review helpful. Elegant. touching. insightful. devastating and mesmerizing!By William FaureI have just finished Boys in the Trees and it is remarkable!!I was hooked from the very first paragraph. "This day may have been THE day. the very day when my identity was born. Before the incident occurred. I didnt think about who I was. After. I would spend the rest of my life testing myself to see if I had been right."Her writing style is elegant and eloquent.Ms Simon gracefully leads the reader through her life piecing together her self identity all the while keeping the reader riveted with an astonishing storytelling talent.Yes all the fun (and surprises!) of the famous relationships and names are here. framed with the songs and music they inspired. but most important. for me. is the story of a woman coming to terms with her own life long quest for love. understanding and forgiveness.7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Sincere. Honest. PowefullBy UlyssesAfter reading ldquo;Boys in the treesrdquo;mdash;all of it I might add. I find the story itself as well the prose. both strikingly powerful and yet uniquely eloquent. Above all. it seems clear that the author has made a deeply sincere effort. and I would guess with a great deal of introspection. to tell the reader who she started out as. who shersquo;s been described as. and who she really has been all along. And I for one believe she has succeeded in that effort.Far from being a ldquo;tell allrdquo; tabloid tryst. this is a story all too familiar to women in the workplace of (mostly) male misogynists (see below) and herein compounded by sexual abuses---in her case at age seven via a sixteen year old boy. If a reader (or reviewer) chooses to skip through to the individual male encounters in her adult life. they will be cheating themselves of a story far deeper. far more profound. and far more respectful---indeed self-effacing. to those encounters. In a world of many shades of gray. her pain staking prose yields truth and honesty to a very real story.There will be the accusers. of course. But I was particularly disturbed by Ms Maslinrsquo;s comment in her (New York Times) review. In summarizing the descriptions by a six year old girl (Ms Simon) being repeatedly sexually abused by a sixteen year old boy. she comes to the conclusion that. hellip;ldquo;Whatever went onhellip; did not offend her (Carly)hellip;rdquo;. Ugh: hopefully Ms Maslin isnrsquo;t assigned any books on childhood sexual assault. ldquo;Boys in the treesrdquo; is deep. beautifully written. and profoundly personalmdash; in the best of ways. A very amazing story. and told amazingly well.
