How Great Cities Happen

Integrating People, Land Use and Transport, Second Edition

2nd edition

Cities series

John Stanley, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, Janet Stanley, Honorary Associate Professor, the Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne and Roslynne Hansen, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and a practicing urban planner who has worked in Australia and the Asia Pacific

Urban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However, this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing demonstrate the urgent need for a broader approach in order to create and sustain great cities. Offering innovative solutions to these contemporary challenges, the book examines emerging directions in strategic land use transport planning and analyses how cities function as a home for future generations and other species.

‘In an urban age disrupted by pandemics, war, economic crisis, and a failing global ecology, the second edition of How Great Cities Happen could not have come at a more important time. Its insightful lessons from urban policy making and governance in a variety of global cities, including the authors’ home town of Melbourne, extend and improve upon their earlier work. The book presents a very valuable and timely resource for government and citizens and deserves to be widely read and discussed.’
– Brendan Gleeson, The University of Melbourne, Australia

‘A timely and important contribution on some of the most vexing challenges facing cities today. Pathways are laid for creating low-carbon, affordable, and socially just places drawing lessons from some of the world’s best designed and livable cities, including Vancouver, Malmö, Melbourne, and London. A must read for progressive-minded urban planners.’
– Robert Cervero, University of California, Berkeley, US

“这第二版提供了主题al and invaluable evidence for everyone concerned about the future and sustainability of cities, whether they are planners, researchers, politicians or residents.’
– Richard D. Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK and Founding Editor, Journal of Transport Geography