Overview: 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
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