Download or read book Emerging Concepts in Transit oriented Design written by Nicholas S. Pergakes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Transit Town written by Hank Dittmar and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized transportation with centrally located rail or bus stations surrounded by relatively high-density commercial and residential development. New Urbanists and smart growth proponents have embraced the concept and interest in TOD is growing, both in the United States and around the world. New Transit Town brings together leading experts in planning, transportation, and sustainable design—including Scott Bernstein, Peter Calthorpe, Jim Daisa, Sharon Feigon, Ellen Greenberg, David Hoyt, Dennis Leach, and Shelley Poticha—to examine the first generation of TOD projects and derive lessons for the next generation. It offers topic chapters that provide detailed discussion of key issues along with case studies that present an in-depth look at specific projects. Topics examined include: the history of projects and the appeal of this form of development a taxonomy of TOD projects appropriate for different contexts and scales the planning, policy and regulatory framework of "successful" projects obstacles to financing and strategies for overcoming those obstacles issues surrounding traffic and parking the roles of all the actors involved and the resources available to them performance measures that can be used to evaluate outcomes Case Studies include Arlington, Virginia (Roslyn-Ballston corridor); Dallas (Mockingbird Station and Addison Circle); historic transit-oriented neighborhoods in Chicago; Atlanta (Lindbergh Center and BellSouth); San Jose (Ohlone-Chynoweth); and San Diego (Barrio Logan). New Transit Town explores the key challenges to transit-oriented development, examines the lessons learned from the first generation of projects, and uses a systematic examination and analysis of a broad spectrum of projects to set standards for the next generation. It is a vital new source of information for anyone interested in urban and regional planning and development, including planners, developers, community groups, transit agency staff, and finance professionals.
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 Transit Oriented Development written by John L Renne and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines that are involved in the conception and implementation of TOD to provide a comprehensive overview of the realization of this concept in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe. The book identifies the challenges facing TOD and through a series of key international case studies demonstrates ways to overcome and avoid them. The insights gleaned from these encompass policy and regulation, urban design solutions, issues for local governance, the need to work with community and the commercial realities of TOD.
Download or read book Transit Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends written by Karen Chapple and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Pedestrian Transit oriented Design written by Reid H. Ewing and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a noted expert on pedestrian design and planning, this handbook contains examples of zoning codes from different localities.
Download or read book Transit oriented Development in the United States written by Robert Cervero and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2004 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emerging Concepts and Products for Transit Systems written by Transit Cooperative Research Program. Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis Program and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transit Street Design Guide written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Transit Street Design Guide sets a new vision for how cities can harness the immense potential of transit to create active and efficient streets in neighborhoods and downtowns alike. Building on the Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide, the Transit Street Design Guide details how reliable public transportation depends on a commitment to transit at every level of design. Developed through a new peer network of NACTO members and transit agency partners, the Guide provides street transportation departments, transit operating agencies, leaders, and practitioners with the tools to actively prioritize transit on the street."--Site Web de NACTO.
Download or read book The Next American Metropolis written by Peter Calthorpe and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.
Download or read book Emerging Concepts and Products for Transit Systems Progress Report 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transit Oriented Design written by Alicia Kravitz and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the line between rural and urban space have blurred over time, the clarity of this boundary is needed once again. Public transportation, and specifically rail, is one tool that can bring a sense of urbanity back to the city, developing the city about transit stations and the scale of the pedestrian, rather than the nebulous streetscapes and limitless suburbs constructed for the automobile. Following a period of vast over construction in America, people are beginning to reconsider the suburban life and look again at the numerous benefits of city living. Based upon the guidelines of New Urbanism town planning, a new form of urban design has recently emerged. The Transit-Oriented Design (TOD) was founded on the concept that public transit and the pedestrian are the primary design concern within a community. The needs of the automobile should not detract from the environment but rather become integrated within a people-oriented community. Traditionally, TODs have been implemented in suburban locations, in newly planned towns or in generally more remote settings. They offer a newer, and more detached version of what our cities used to offer. It is becoming apparent that TODs must be utilized in order to restore a needed sense of urban living: a pedestrian scaled, dense, urban context. If people have begun to search for a denser urban environment, the downtowns of American cities must act as the model for newer suburban reinterpretation. Cincinnati is among those cities that require drastic downtown re-urbanization. The city has become riddled with expansive parking lots, leaving gaping wounds in the center of the city. One of the largest wounds within the city center is Broadway Commons. Now mostly parking lots, it serves only the automobile, completely disregarding the pedestrian and the urban scale of downtown. The only memory that remains of public transportation and the pedestrian is the Greyhound station, currently in a state of disrepair, with no connection to the surrounding urban fabric and its community. This thesis aims to integrate a redesigned Greyhound station within a revitalized urban landscape, comprised of community and transit. As Cincinnati begins to move toward a more efficient and expansive transit system, a TOD would be an appropriate strategy to apply to a new Broadway Commons district. This thesis aims to develop a strategy to develop a neighborhood center, with transit as the core, to create a better sense of community, place and urbanism for the city of Cincinnati.
Download or read book Transit Oriented Development written by John L. Renne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines that are involved in the conception and implementation of TOD to provide a comprehensive overview of the realization of this concept in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe. The book identifies the challenges facing TOD and through a series of key international case studies demonstrates ways to overcome and avoid them. The insights gleaned from these encompass policy and regulation, urban design solutions, issues for local governance, the need to work with community and the commercial realities of TOD.
Download or read book Transit Oriented Development An Approach To Neighborhood Mobility written by Harneet Kaur and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 2.0, University of Weimar (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism), course: M.Sc. European Urban Studies, language: English, abstract: The thesis research is divided into three main categories. Firstly, explaining "Emerging Practices" with definitions of different new trends for overcoming various challenges around the globe. Secondly, by ‘Learning lessons’ from best practices and interviewing Experts in this field and the last part of future experiments in section ‘Future Lab’ where these learnings and Challenges are demonstrated together to form recommendations for future proposals. In future Lab, Challenges which are basis of this thesis study; Learnings which are currently happening; and findings which are recommendations from expertise are collected together to form a catalog. Further integrating these key elements from catalogue help to create a new future proposal. A design model under three different criteria is made and interpret the level of integrating the key elements. Thus, in this future lab of experiments, successful recommendations are delivered to fulfill the goals and objectives of neighborhood mobility concept. TOD is a prominent solution considered to overcome major urban issues. However, different interpretations of this concept lead to difficulties in conducting TOD. Implementation of TOD is realized on different scales, varying from macro to micro. This thesis research focus on micro scale implementation which refer to neighborhood scale. With new trend of mobility, transit stations in neighborhood are rather used as mobility hubs or combined with other mobility offers. Many people are increasingly using mobility offers that best suit their situation and combine various transport modes flexible with each other. These models are called multimodal or intermodal of mobility. These mobility offers mostly sharing means of transportation like Car Sharing and Bike Sharing integrated in different ways. Furthermore, it is identified, whether the neighborhood mobility plan is serving only the residents living around this neighborhood or has effect on urban area too. To understand both the cases, two best practices in each case is explained. So, detail overview study of well operating mobility station ‘SWITCHH’ developed in Hamburg, Germany and mobility plan focusing on its residents; ‘Seestadt Aspern’ in Vienna are reviewed. To investigate the success factor, method to approach from concept level to development level and other criteria’s; expert interviews are conducted from the team of mobility concept developers.
Download or read book Managing Growth in America s Communities written by Douglas R. Porter and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America’s Communities, readers will learn the principles that guide intelligent planning for communities of any size, grasp the major issues in successfully managing growth, and discover what has actually worked in practice (and where and why). This clearly written book details how American communities have grappled with the challenges of planning for growth and the ways in which they are adapting new ideas about urban design, green building, and conservation. It describes the policies and programs they have implemented, and includes examples from towns and cities throughout the U.S. Growth management is essential today, as communities seek to control the location, impact, character, and timing of development in order to balance environmental and economic needs and concerns. The author, who is one of the nation’s leading authorities on managing community growth, provides examples from dozens of communities across the country, as well as state and regional approaches. Brief profiles present overviews of specific problems addressed, techniques utilized, results achieved, and contact information for further research. Informative sidebars offer additional perspectives from experts in growth management, including Robert Lang, Arthur C. Nelson, Erik Meyers, and others. In particular, he considers issues of population growth, eminent domain, and the importance of design, especially green design. He also reports on the latest ideas in sustainable development, smart growth, neighborhood design, transit-oriented development, and green infrastructure planning. Like its predecessor, the second edition of Managing Growth in America’s Communities is essential reading for anyone who is interested in how communities can grow intelligently.
Download or read book Transforming Cities with Transit written by Hiroaki Suzuki and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration and provides policy recommendations and implementation strategies for effective integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.
Download or read book Concept Design Report written by Architectus and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
