Regional and Urban GIS
Regional and Urban GIS

Author: Timothy L. Nyerges

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 160623336X

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This unique text shows students and professionals how geographic information systems (GIS) can guide decision making about complex community and environmental problems. The authors’ step-by-step introduction to GIS-based decision analysis methods and techniques covers important urban and regional issues (land, transportation, and water resource management) and decision processes (planning, improvement programming, and implementation). Real-world case studies demonstrate how GIS-based decision support works in a variety of contexts, with a special focus on community and regional sustainability management. Ideal for course use, the book reinforces key concepts with end-of-chapter review questions; illustrations include 18 color plates.

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas
Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

Author: Jean Mercier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-29

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 3319990918

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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.