"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The...

Most developed countries now pursue policies that implicitly or explicitly aim at promoting compact urban form. This report analyses more than 300 academic papers that study the effects of compact urban form, and finds that 69% of the papers reviewed find positive effects associated with compact...

Preface / Blas L. Pérez Henríquez and Elizabeth Deakin -- What have we learned so far from high-speed rail systems around the world? -- Introduction to HSR / Elizabeth Deakin -- Realizing the potential of HSR : the United Kingdom experience / David Banister and Moshe Givoni -- The Shinkansen...