Cover; Half-Title Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. City and Complexity: How to Untangle the Skein?; 1.1. Systemic thinking and its historical context; 1.2. The system approach; 1.3. Analytical and systemic methods are complementary rather than opposed; 1.4. Transdisciplinarity of the concept of system and presentation of a typology of complexity; 1.5. The concept of variety; 1.6. Keys to analyzing a system: functions and structures; 1.6.1. The concept of function; 1.6.2. The concept of structure
1.7. From description to analysis and action: the example of flowcharts1.8. Concept of model and systemic modeling; 1.9. An application of systemic analysis: study of the relationships between transport networks and territory; 1.10. Action as a method of knowledge; 2. Town Planning and Urban Pattern: the Emergence of Circulatory Function; 2.1. The first urban fabrics: two founding patterns; 2.2. Advent of circulatory function; 2.2.1. Powerful changes implemented; 2.2.2. Cerdà, the theoretician; 2.2.3. Haussmann, the realist; 2.3. The effects of the mechanization of modes of transport
2.3.1. The linear city of Arturo Soria y Mata2.3.2. Garden cities; 2.4. Urban transport: a chaotic development; 2.4.1. A public interest service; 2.4.2. Mechanization; 2.5. Advent of electric traction and its success following the construction of the Paris subway; 2.5.1. The accident "founder" of the Couronnes station; 2.5.2. The first wave of automation; 2.5.3. The triptych of innovation: technologies, organization and professions; 2.6. The tramway: from its disappearance in France to its rebirth; 2.6.1. The development period; 2.6.2. Decline of the tramway; 2.6.3. The rebirth
2.7. The automobile city2.7.1. Progressive town planning and the functional specification of spaces; 2.7.2. The convergence between functionalism and naturalism; 2.8. Towards the public transport city?; 2.8.1. The "omnipresent automobile" in question; 2.8.2. "Transport-oriented development"; 2.8.3. The end of utopias?; 3. Building of New Towns: an Attempt at Linking Transport Networks to Urban Planning; 3.1. From imaginary new towns to their achievement; 3.1.1. The initial project; 3.1.2. A new territorial organization; 3.1.3. The structuring role of big transportation infrastructures
3.1.4. A period rich in innovations3.1.5. An undeniable success?; 3.2. The case of Marne-la-Vallée; 3.2.1. Marne-la-Vallée's entry into the regional space; 3.2.2. The evolution of the overall administrative and institutional framework of new towns; 3.2.3. The specific institutional organization of Marne-la-Vallée; 3.3 A mixed report; 3.3.1. Population growth stimulated by housing construction; 3.3.2. Activities, employment and job/active population balance in new towns; 3.3.3. The importance of areas reserved for activities; 3.3.4. Employment location areas and source of active population
3.3.5. Internal circulation in Marne-la-Vallée new town -- the most overlooked of urban planning
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In a context where climate change urgently requires us to alter our paradigms, this book explores the possibilities of cities that are both more energy efficient and more respectful of the environment. Based on the observation that urban planning has been detrimentally affected by the compartmentalization of knowledge and practices, this book is conceived as a dialog between transport and urban planning on the one hand, and between engineering and social science on the other. Systemic analysis and a historical approach, integrating the teachings of the last two centuries, constitute at the methodological level the framework in which this dialog unfolds. Based on examples of good practice, Transport and Town Planning identifies an effective set of levers of action and proposes an original method to guide and accompany urban transition with a large share of the initiative reserved for the actors concerned.