Download or read book Can Transit Oriented Development Work for a Redeveloping Bridgeport written by Jay Habansky and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community leaders are constantly searching to leverage public investments in transportation, which in turn foster private investment in particular land development techniques. One specific style of land development, transit-oriented development (TOD), has been widely discussed among urban planners and elected officials as a potential strategy to combat the symptoms associated with urban sprawl while creating an atmosphere that promotes high quality economic development. This study discusses ways in which TODs can impact value premiums on parcels within a defined district and then assess how the results can support the redeveloping city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Although the benefits of TODs in the community are real, an experienced land- value premium cannot be directly linked to TODs as the silver bullet solution. Instead, TODs can maximize their potential benefits to the community with support from related, yet external, factors. The selected methodology for this study is cross-sectional, non-experimental and retrospective-prospective in nature. Research conducted has determined that TOD alone cannot create an environment that produces land-value premiums and that a robust collection of urban planning techniques need to be present in conjunction with TODs to promote a successful real estate market. This research adds to the existing case studies that have been completed and serve as a tool for municipalities to help determine what planning interventions serve their community in the most effective manner possible.
Download or read book Transit Development Program written by Greater Bridgeport, Conn. Transit District and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal written by Rory Shand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case studies from the UK, Germany and USA to explore the effect of institutional design and modes of governance and evaluates policy outputs, outcomes and best practice. In doing so, it illustrates where power and decision making lies in the delivery of urban renewal initiatives and examines the roles for communities in the governance process. The analysis offers insight into the formation of partnerships and networks that can help to overcome many of the obstacles faced in urban renewal and in the promotion of sustainable development in core urban areas. Given the increasing commitment of governments throughout the world to renewal as a means for resolving entrenched environmental, social and governance problems, this timely new study should be of interest to students and researchers across a range of disciplines including environment studies, geography, public policy, governance and politics, sustainable development, planning and urban studies.
Download or read book Greener Communities Greater Opportunities written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Impact II written by G. Passerini and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impacts on Sustainable Development incorporating Environmental Economics, Toxicology and Brownfields. Following the success of the first meeting held in the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute of Technology, in 2012, it considers the pressing issues related to environmental impacts in order to provide complete solutions. The included papers discuss how to assess the impact of economic constraints on the environment, considering the social aspects as well as any resulting environmental damage. The overuse of natural resources and the resulting pollution of the environment need to be better understood in financial terms. Uncontrolled development can result in damage to the environment in terms of the release of toxic substances and hazardous waste. The increasing number of new chemical compounds poses a major challenge to the environment as it is difficult in many cases to predict their effects and take appropriate decisions. Their economic impact can be particularly challenging. The book examines issues related to whether some forms of development are compatible with environmental protection, particularly in cases of possible serious contamination and toxicity. The demand for development land has led to the reuse of properties that have been abandoned for a variety of reasons. Many of them are brownfields, sites which have deteriorated in different ways, including by contamination. These sites are usually a burden in terms of economic losses and contribute to the detriment of the quality of life of entire neighbourhoods. Rehabilitation of local fields, particularly those that are contaminated can be an expensive undertaking and require not only technical solutions but the involvement of financial, regulatory and community stakeholders. Fundamental to this premise is the analysis of the risks involved and the development of appropriate strategies. The papers address problems of great importance discussing more constructive and progressive approaches to ensure sustainability. A major motivation for the meeting is to learn from past failures, to avoid repeating similar mistakes, while attempting to prevent emerging threats to the environmental and ecological systems. Topics covered include: Environmental policies and planning; Environmental assessments; Development issues; Sustainable cities; Economic analysis; Natural resources management; Energy and the environment; Food and the environment; Ecosystems health; Soil contamination; Brownfields rehabilitation; Water resources management; Air and water pollution; Toxicity studies; Environmental health risk; Risk analysis; Community participation; Legislation and regulations.
Download or read book OECD Regional Outlook 2014 Regions and Cities Where Policies and People Meet written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the OECD Regional Outlook aims to help countries adapt policies to the specificities of where people live.
Download or read book Making the Connection written by Sarah Grady and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transit oriented Development in the United States written by Kevin McNally and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the topic of transit-oriented development (TOD) and its evolution in the United States since the rise of public transportation systems in the late-19th century. Using the work of modern day TOD scholars and organizations, this thesis presents the various definitions of transit-oriented development and examines the characteristics designers and developers of TODs should strive towards in order to "create places that function differently than conventional development" (Dittmar 22 2004). Using the work of urban historians and theorists, this thesis relates the characteristics of successful transit-oriented developments back to time-tested urban design and planning ideas and theories. This will help to show that TOD should not be viewed as a utopian concept, but as a real world solution to the issues urban regions face today, including sprawling and placeless suburban communities, long and laborious commutes along congested highways, and automobile-oriented neighborhoods and developments. Transit-oriented development will also be traced through time from its inception in late-19th century streetcar suburbs all the way to its place in city planning processes today. By understanding the early concepts of "development-oriented transit" and the subsequent rise, fall, and re-emergence of transit systems and transit-oriented communities in the United States, this thesis hopes to show how transit-oriented development is not a new development scheme, but one that has evolved from historic urban neighborhood development patterns. This thesis will use a case study analysis process to examine the successes and failures of modern day TODs that have been built in the past two decades in various urban and suburban placetypes throughout the United States. Using evaluation categories developed by Hank Dittmar and Shelley Poticha in The New Transit Town, this thesis will examine the successes and shortcomings of five TODs: (1) Fruitvale Village in Oakland/San Francisco, California, (2) Downtown Arlington Heights outside of Chicago, Illinois, (3) Orenco Station outside of Portland Oregon, (4) Addison Circle outside of Dallas, Texas, and (5) Englewood CityCenter outside of Denver, Colorado. The case studies will show that there is an issue within the planning and design realm of using the term TOD too loosely to describe any development around transit stations. True TODs should be "transit places," where transit has a great influence on the physical character of the TOD. Likewise, there needs to be a clearer differentiation between New Urbanist developments near transit and TODs. While there are many similarities between the two, the incorporation of transit throughout the design and development process is extremely important to TOD. And lastly, the case studies will show that the role of the process and actors within TOD planning, design, and implementation can vastly alter the final outcome of TODs. The process must be carefully monitored to make sure that major decisions that impact the final character of a TOD are not ultimately compromising the potential for successful transit-oriented development.
Download or read book Annual Report The Urban Land Institute written by Urban Land Institute and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Member Policy Initiatives and Project Requests for Reauthorization of the Federal Highway and Transit Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1981 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Coming Clean for Economic Development written by Charles Bartsch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book PAS Memo written by American Planning Association. Planning Advisory Service and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fourth Regional Plan written by Regional Plan Association and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region has prospered into one of the world's leading economies. But the benefits of this economic resurgence have been uneven, leaving many behind and resulting in problems that could curtail the region's future prosperity. The Regional Plan Association's Fourth Regional Plan is an ambitious assessment that reviews the most persistent problems and provides a guide to correcting them. Topics discussed include a crisis of housing affordability, overburdened and deteriorating infrastructure, vulnerability to climate change, and a pervasive distrust in government. The plan offers solutions including how to bring nearly two million jobs to the region by 2040, while promoting shared prosperity, well-being and sustainability across the region. The Fourth Regional Plan continues the Regional Plan Association's tradition of providing concrete ideas for improving the tri-state region. Highlights include radically restructuring the MTA and Port Authority to support creation of a modernized and expanded subway and regional rail network; significantly increasing the availability of housing; and expanding the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to fund climate change initiatives. This highly visual, comprehensive plan will help elected officials, policymakers, and advocates guide any region to a more equitable, sustainable, healthy, and prosperous future.
Download or read book Building a Better Chicago written by Teresa Irene Gonzales and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang activity. In Building a Better Chicago, Teresa Irene Gonzales shows us how, and why, these promises have gone unfulfilled, revealing tensions between neighborhood residents and the institutions that claim to represent them. Focusing on Little Village, the largest Mexican immigrant community in the Midwest, and Greater Englewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood, Gonzales gives us an on-the-ground look at Chicago’s inner city. She shows us how philanthropists, nonprofits, and government agencies struggle for power and control—often against the interests of residents themselves—with the result of further marginalizing the communities of color they seek to help. But Gonzales also shows how these communities have advocated for themselves and demanded accountability from the politicians and agencies in their midst. Building a Better Chicago explores the many high-stakes battles taking place on the streets of Chicago, illuminating a more promising pathway to empowering communities of color in the twenty-first century.
