Abstract
In this lecture, we address the question on whether and how transport can serve and support other local and global agendas in urban areas. There are important contributions that a well-functioning city transport system can make to a range of goals—including improving housing (and lowering housing costs), reducing poverty (including increasing income-earning opportunities and lowering transport costs), and reducing disaster risk, adapting to climate change and climate change mitigation. But to what extent do the transport components of these strategies overlap or conflict? And, perhaps as importantly, is it possible to implement what is needed, especially in regard to land-use management that supports these goals.
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Notes
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Revi (2005).
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Newman and Kenworthy (1999).
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Hoornweg et al. (2011).
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Bertaud (2014).
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Bhan (2009).
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See UN Habitat (2012).
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For water, improved provision includes piped water into dwelling, yard or plot, public tap or standpipe, tubewell or borehole, protected dug well, protected spring or rainwater collection. For sanitation, improved provision includes use of use flush or pour-flush toilets to piped sewer system septic tank or pit latrine, ventilated improved pit latrine, pit latrine with slab or composting toilet. These cover such a wide range of types of provision and will include many that are very deficient in urban contexts. See UNICEF and WHO (2012), Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation; 2012 Update, Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, UNICEF and WHO, New York and Geneva, 60 pages.
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Mitlin and Satterthwaite (2012).
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SPARC (1985).
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This and the other boxes draw material from Hardoy and Satterthwaite (1989).
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Turner (1976).
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Patel (1990).
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Patel et al. (2002).
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UN-Habitat (2013).
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Mitlin and Satterthwaite (2012), op. cit.
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Carruthers et al. (2005).
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Ibid.
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Winrock International (2005).
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World Bank (2006).
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Central Statistical Office, Zambia (1998).
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Carruthers et al. (2005), op. cit.
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Salon and Gulyani (2010).
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Carruthers et al. (2005), op. cit.
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Sabry (2010).
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Follegatti and Luis (1999).
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Mitlin and Muller (2004).
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Hardoy and Satterthwaite (1989), op. cit.
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UN-Habitat (2013), op. cit.
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Patel (2013).
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UN-Habitat (2013), op. cit.
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Angel et al. (2005).
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Ibid.
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Satterthwaite, D. (2021). ‘How Can Transport Contribute to Other Urban Agendas?’. In: Tiwari, G., Mohan, D. (eds) Transport and Safety. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1115-5_15
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