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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Transportation Study
Author: Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Transportation Study: Factual data report
Author: Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Transportation StudyPublisher:
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Category : Traffic surveys
Languages : en
Pages :
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Social-economic study, Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Transportation Study interim report
Author: Proposed Third Bridge Crossing on the Columbia River Between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Shaping the Metropolis
Author: Zack TaylorPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077355842X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive ecosystems, water supplies, and food security. Existing urban infrastructure is crumbling while governments struggle to pay for new and expanded services. Can our inherited urban governance institutions and policies effectively respond to these problems? In Shaping the Metropolis Zack Taylor compares the historical development of American and Canadian urban governance, both at the national level and through specific metropolitan case studies. Examining Minneapolis–St Paul and Portland, Oregon, in the United States, and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, Taylor shows how differences in the structure of governing institutions in American states and Canadian provinces cumulatively produced different forms of urban governance. Arguing that since the nineteenth century American state governments have responded less effectively to rapid urban growth than Canadian provinces, he shows that the concentration of authority in Canadian provincial governments enabled the rapid adoption of coherent urban policies after the Second World War, while dispersed authority in American state governments fostered indecision and catered to parochial interests. Most contemporary policy problems and their solutions are to be found in cities. Shaping the Metropolis shows that urban governance encompasses far more than local government, and that states and provinces have always played a central role in responding to urban policy challenges and will continue to do so in the future.
Governing the Fragmented Metropolis
Author: Christina D. RosanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban sprawl, spatial segregation, gentrification, education, housing affordability, regional equity, and more. Unfortunately, local governments do not have the capacity to respond to the interlocking set of problems facing metropolitan regions, and future challenges such as population growth and climate change will not make it easier. But will we ever have a more effective and sustainable approach to developing the metropolitan region? The answer may depend on our ability to develop a means to govern a metropolitan region that promotes population density, regional public transit systems, and the equitable development of city and suburbs within a system of land use and planning that is by and large a local one. If we want to plan for sustainable regions we need to understand and strengthen existing metropolitan planning arrangements. Christina D. Rosan observes that policy-makers and scholars have long agreed that we need metropolitan governance, but they have debated the best approach. She argues that we need to have a more nuanced understanding of both metropolitan development and local land use planning. She interviews over ninety local and regional policy-makers in Portland, Denver, and Boston, and compares the uses of collaboration and authority in their varying metropolitan planning processes. At one end of the spectrum is Portland's approach, which leverages its authority and mandates local land use; at the other end is Boston's, which offers capacity building and financial incentives in the hopes of garnering voluntary cooperation. Rosan contends that most regions lie somewhere in between and only by understanding our current hybrid system of local land use planning and metropolitan governance will we be able to think critically about what political arrangements and tools are necessary to support the development of environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable metropolitan regions.
Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: Metropolitan Management, Transportation and Planning
Author: Urban Public Transportation
Author: Urban Public Transportation
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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