Successful cycling planning depends on combining improvements to infrastructure with education. There are chapters examining both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world; including such topics as changes to existing road infrastructure and the integration of cycling with public transport. Since education is a critical element in cycling planning; contributors also consider such topics as developing healthy travel habits in the young and ways of promoting cycling. A number of chapters look at the complex relationship between cars and cycling; discussing how roads can be successfully shared between these two modes of transport.With its blend of practical experience and suggestions for improvement; Planning for cycling is essential reading for urban planners; environmental groups and those researching in this area.Describes how creating an effective policy for cycling involves combining improvements to infrastructure with educationChapters examine both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the worldExamines the complex relationship between cars and cycling and discusses how roads can be successfully shared between these two modes of transport
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The go-to textbook on a thrilling new domain of human discoveryBy Jeff Victoroff; M.D.Why does music have the profound effects it does on the human nervous system? Even Darwin wrestled with that question and came up baffled. HOW does music have the profound effects it does on the human nervous system? That is different question--an empirical question currently yielding to scholarly inquiries using methods of hypothesis testing that have only just become available. 30 years ago; one was obliged to either conduct experiments in psychoacoustics; or to measure peripheral responses of the autonomic nervous system; or to try to infer brain function from scalp electroencephalography [EEG]--a method from the 1930s that relies on pitifully weak head surface signals. Research on the neurobehavioral effects of music and sound has exploded since the advent of functional neuroimaging. What Dr. Koelsch and others (e.g.; Bob Zatorre at McGill) have recently done is to employ advanced imaging in elegant experiments to investigate exactly what goes on in the head when one hears (or reads; or performs; or thinks about) music. If one has; for decades; been both deeply moved by music and deeply curious about why that happens; one dreamed of this day.Brain Music is a 2012 update of Dr. Koelschs important 2000 essay on this subject. Although it is already somewhat dated; it is the best compact summary of the state of the art of which I am aware. It is; however; a textbook; not a beach read. Dr. Koelsch is not a science-popularizer; like the authors of some other very good books on this subject. He is a scientist; writing for those with scientific backgrounds. Perhaps the major stumbling block for many will be the neuroanatomy. Still; the later chapters are packed with knowledge and one could skip to them and still profit handsomely. Readers looking for a more accessible introduction to this thrilling field might prefer--for example--Dan Levitins "This is your brain on music;" or even Jourdains old "Music; the brain; and ecstasy." But if one wished to teach an inspiring course on this new discipline; Brain Music would probably be the go-to textbook.2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Unclear bookBy PianinhaIt says it gives an easy view on neuroscience and music but it never happens. The book is dense as its authors doctoral thesis.
