Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte

   Pages 1-29

3. The Context of Sustainable Urban Transport

   • Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte

   Pages 31-54

4. Three Cities of the Americas: Policies and Instruments in Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba

   • Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte

   Pages 55-89

5. Conclusion on the Data

   • Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte

   Pages 91-112

6. Looking to the Future

   • Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte

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7. Back Matter

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This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting  cases in dealing with  sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical  data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and policy instruments (planning, consultation and market mechanisms for example) were  implemented in each case. Through concepts coming from policy studies and  sociology, for example,  such as path dependency, institutional culture  and transaction costs, the three cities are also looked at in a broader perspective in order to better understand how they deal differently with  their common challenges.

• Urban Planning
• Sustainability Planning
• Transportation Studies
• Transport Policy
• Transportation Planning
• Transit Studies
• Sustainable Transportation
• Governance
• Government Policy
• Americas
• North America
• South America
• Chicago
• Seattle
• Montreal
• Toronto
• Curitiba

• Université Laval, Québec, Canada

  Jean Mercier, Mario Carrier

• Ecole nationale d'administration publique, Québec, Canada

  Fanny Tremblay-Racicot

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, USA

  Fábio Duarte

Jean Mercier is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Laval University, Canada. He was Vergniaud Chair of Territorial Governance at the Université de Bordeaux, France, in 2009.

Fanny Tremblay-Racicot is Associate Professor of local and regional administration at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP), Québec, Canada.

Mario Carrier is a Professor at the Graduate School of Urban and Regional Planning at Laval University, Canada. He is also a member of the Centre for Research in Planning and Development (CRAD).

Fábio Duarte is Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, USA, Professor at the Pontfícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil, and Consultant for the World Bank. His books include Unplugging the City, co-authored with Rodrigo Firmino.