ABSTRACT
There is a close relationship between the nature of urban transportation and urban structure (Table 13.1). When most people had to walk to engage in essential daily tasks, cities were necessarily compact. Citizens lived at or close to their workplaces, circumstances that favoured high-density living environments in small, functionally integrated cities that rarely achieved populations of 50,000.1 Only during the industrial revolution did vehicles of
relatively high capacity and speed allow greater distances to be travelled and larger quantities of goods to be exchanged. This relaxed restrictions on city size and established the interdependence between transport technology and urban form.
