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Book Review: Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places

city-regional interventions and instruments to achieve the institutional capacity at both spatial levels so that ecological systems thinking can be used at vertical and horizontal spatial scales. Taken collectively, Transport Matters: Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions contributes to our understanding of the institutional structures and barriers, and intervention instruments necessary for a sustainable transport system. The book is organized in a logical sequence that describes the problem, develops the framework, and applies the framework to carefully selected case studies. The strongest contribution of the book can be found in the middle of the book—Chapters 4 through 6—where Hull systematically describes the multiscalar institutional structure for lowenergy future, institutional barriers to change, and intervention instruments for sustainable transport. Each of these topics is addressed comprehensively and from the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the transport sector— reduction of carbon content of fuels/increased vehicle efficiency, modal switch for more efficient modes/more efficient use of the network, and reduction of the volume of travel. The case studies that follow build on this well-established framework. The book is ambitious, and generally successful, in tying together all three pillars of sustainability—economic, environmental, and social equity—while also arguing for intersectoral coordination between transport and the broader economy. However, the book would benefit from stronger integration of some of these themes throughout the entire book. The book is strongest in making the case for environmental and economic sustainability. Arguments for energy efficiency, reduction in noise and air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are woven throughout. While economic aspects of sustainability are clearly explored throughout the book, the concept of exergy, an aspect of economic efficiency, is thoroughly explained in the third chapter, but could be highlighted in later sections. The first sentence of the book hints at its broad scope when the author states that it “tries to envision what a transport system that meets the needs of the disabled, weak, the young and the elderly might be like” (p. 1). This theme is elaborated in the discussion of socio-spatial planning in Chapter 3. Additionally, a policy framework that supports non-automobile forms of accessibility and mobility could support the social equity pillar of sustainability. However, the social equity aspects could be more strongly integrated into the institutional structures, intervention instruments, and the case studies and their analysis. The connections between land use, transport, and the broader economy are described at various points in the book where policies affecting the social service sectors—health, housing and education—are described; however, the considerations of transport in these policy sectors is not explored in any detail. For example, how is accessibility to transit and walking incorporated into decisions about the location of health care facilities or affordable housing? The broad theme in the title, Transport Matters, suggests a broader connection to other policies (like health, housing and education) but at its core the book is about the coordination of land use and transport as a part of sustainable accessibility. This book offers much to researchers and practitioners who are interested in institutional aspects of planning, sustainability, land use, and transport policy and planning.