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| Author | Colin Buchanan Ministry of Transport |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Reports of the Steering Group and Working Group appointed by the Minister of Transport; chairmen: Colin Buchanan, Geoffrey Crowther |
| Published | London |
| Publisher | H.M. Stationery Office |
Publication date | 25 November 1963 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| ISBN | 9780115503160 |
| OCLC | 29089181 |
| Text | [Traffic in Towns at the Internet Archive Traffic in towns: A study of the long term problems of traffic in urban areas] online |
| Author | Colin Buchanan Ministry of Transport Sir Geoffrey Crowther (preface) |
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| Language | English |
| Published | Harmondsworth |
| Publisher | Penguin Books in association with H.M. Stationery Office |
Publication date | 1964 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| OCLC | 220291578 |
Traffic in Towns is an influential report and popular book on urban and transport planning policy published 25 November 1963 for the UK Ministry of Transport by a team headed by the architect, civil engineer and planner Colin Buchanan.[1][2] The report warned of the potential damage caused by the motor car, while offering ways to mitigate it.[3] It gave planners a set of policy blueprints to deal with its effects on the urban environment, including traffic containment and segregation, which could be balanced against urban redevelopment, new corridor and distribution roads and precincts.
These policies shaped the development of the urban landscape in the UK and some other countries for two or three decades. Unusually for a technical policy report, it was so much in demand that Penguin abridged it and republished it as a book in 1964.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2007.
- ^ "Professor Sir Colin Buchanan". Sinclair Knight Merz. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ^ Buchanan 1964, Introduction.