Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309060578
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Discusses how transit impacts and improves community life in the United States.
The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities
Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309060578
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Discusses how transit impacts and improves community life in the United States.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309060578
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Discusses how transit impacts and improves community life in the United States.
How Transportation and Community Partnerships are Shaping America: Transit stops and stations
The Role of Transit in Creating Liveable Metropolitan Communities
Author: Project for Public Spaces
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages :
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Planning, Developing, and Implementing Community-sensitive Transit
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This booklet describes and illustrates some of the ways the transportation planning, development, and implementation process is producing commmunity-sensitive transportation facilities and services.
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This booklet describes and illustrates some of the ways the transportation planning, development, and implementation process is producing commmunity-sensitive transportation facilities and services.
Transit-friendly Streets
Author: Project for Public Spaces
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309062657
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Presents 10 strategies used in both the United States and Europe to create transit-friendly streets. The strategies are followed by case studies of five communities that have pursued different initiatives to improve their livability by making their streets more transit-friendly.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309062657
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Presents 10 strategies used in both the United States and Europe to create transit-friendly streets. The strategies are followed by case studies of five communities that have pursued different initiatives to improve their livability by making their streets more transit-friendly.
Building Livable Communities with Transit
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Transportation for Livable Cities
Author: Vukan Vuchic
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351318144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The twenty-first century finds civilization heavily based in cities that have grown into large metropolitan areas. Many of these focal points of human activity face problems of economic inefficiency, environmental deterioration, and an unsatisfactory quality of life—problems that go far in determining whether a city is "livable." A large share of these problems stems from the inefficiencies and other impacts of urban transportation systems. The era of projects aimed at maximizing vehicular travel is being replaced by the broader goal of achieving livable cities: economically efficient, socially sound, and environmentally friendly. This book explores the complex relationship between transportation and the character of cities and metropolitan regions. Vukan Vuchic applies his experience in urban transportation systems and policies to present a systematic review of transportation modes and their characteristics. Transportation for Livable Cities dispels the myths and emotional advocacies for or against freeways, rail transit, bicycles,and other modes of transportation. The author discusses the consequences of excessive automobile dependence and shows that the most livable cities worldwide have intermodal systems that balance highway and public transit modes while providing for pedestrians, bicyclists, and paratransit. Vuchic defines the policies necessary for achieving livable cities: the effective implementation of integrated intermodal transportation systems.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351318144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The twenty-first century finds civilization heavily based in cities that have grown into large metropolitan areas. Many of these focal points of human activity face problems of economic inefficiency, environmental deterioration, and an unsatisfactory quality of life—problems that go far in determining whether a city is "livable." A large share of these problems stems from the inefficiencies and other impacts of urban transportation systems. The era of projects aimed at maximizing vehicular travel is being replaced by the broader goal of achieving livable cities: economically efficient, socially sound, and environmentally friendly. This book explores the complex relationship between transportation and the character of cities and metropolitan regions. Vukan Vuchic applies his experience in urban transportation systems and policies to present a systematic review of transportation modes and their characteristics. Transportation for Livable Cities dispels the myths and emotional advocacies for or against freeways, rail transit, bicycles,and other modes of transportation. The author discusses the consequences of excessive automobile dependence and shows that the most livable cities worldwide have intermodal systems that balance highway and public transit modes while providing for pedestrians, bicyclists, and paratransit. Vuchic defines the policies necessary for achieving livable cities: the effective implementation of integrated intermodal transportation systems.
Building Livable Communities Through Transportation
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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Descriptions of transportation projects and supplement projects from around the United States.
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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Descriptions of transportation projects and supplement projects from around the United States.
Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook
Author: Stuart Meck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351178318
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1528
Book Description
States and their local governments have practical tools to help combat urban sprawl, protect farmland, promote affordable housing, and encourage redevelopment. They appear in the American Planning Association's Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change. The Guidebook and its accompanying User Manual are the culmination of APA's seven-year Growing Smart project, an effort to draft the next generation of model planning and zoning legislation for the United States. The Guidebook is also pertinent to those who are affected by planning decisions and who have an interest in how the statutes are revised, including: Local planners Builders Developers Real estate and design professionals Smart growth and affordable housing advocates Environmentalists Highway and transit specialists Citizens.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351178318
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1528
Book Description
States and their local governments have practical tools to help combat urban sprawl, protect farmland, promote affordable housing, and encourage redevelopment. They appear in the American Planning Association's Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change. The Guidebook and its accompanying User Manual are the culmination of APA's seven-year Growing Smart project, an effort to draft the next generation of model planning and zoning legislation for the United States. The Guidebook is also pertinent to those who are affected by planning decisions and who have an interest in how the statutes are revised, including: Local planners Builders Developers Real estate and design professionals Smart growth and affordable housing advocates Environmentalists Highway and transit specialists Citizens.
Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?
Author: Karen Chapple
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536854
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning literature and various policy interventions in recent decades, we still understand little about what happens to neighborhoods and residents with the development of transit systems and the trend toward more compact cities. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change both physically and socially while others do not, and how race and class shape change in the twenty-first-century context of growing inequality. Drawing on novel methodological approaches, this book sheds new light on the question of who benefits and who loses from more compact development around new transit stations. Building on data at multiple levels, it connects quantitative analysis on regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and photographic documentation in twelve different California neighborhoods. From the local to the regional to the global, Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the phenomena of neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement not only through an empirical lens but also from theoretical and historical perspectives. Growing out of an in-depth research process that involved close collaboration with dozens of community groups, the book aims to respond to the needs of both advocates and policymakers for ideas that work in the trenches.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536854
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning literature and various policy interventions in recent decades, we still understand little about what happens to neighborhoods and residents with the development of transit systems and the trend toward more compact cities. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change both physically and socially while others do not, and how race and class shape change in the twenty-first-century context of growing inequality. Drawing on novel methodological approaches, this book sheds new light on the question of who benefits and who loses from more compact development around new transit stations. Building on data at multiple levels, it connects quantitative analysis on regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and photographic documentation in twelve different California neighborhoods. From the local to the regional to the global, Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the phenomena of neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement not only through an empirical lens but also from theoretical and historical perspectives. Growing out of an in-depth research process that involved close collaboration with dozens of community groups, the book aims to respond to the needs of both advocates and policymakers for ideas that work in the trenches.