Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

"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."--Amazon.com Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte)....Pages 1-29 The Context of Sustainable Urban Transport (Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte)....Pages 31-54 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 Conclusion on the Data (Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte)....Pages 91-112 Looking to the Future (Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier, Fábio Duarte)....Pages 113-126 Back Matter ....Pages 127-129