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Can We Live Local?

June 9, 2011 by Tazmine Loomans
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Today’s post is by Ryan Glass. I first met Ryan at a Places, Spaces and Faces Community Dinner. I subsequently ran into Ryan’s insightful and hilarious blog Relevant Wit through some mutual urbanist friends. When I saw Ryan at Lola’s on Roosevelt a while ago, I knew I had to hit him up for a guest post! The Downtown Phoenix Public... [read more]

Too much large-lot housing, too little urban housing to meet demand

May 2, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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   The chart above comes from Arthur C. (Chris) Nelson of the University of Utah, as reported by Rob Steuteville in his New Urban Network blog.  It compares three estimates of American consumer housing preferences – from Nelson’s own research, market analysts Robert Charles Lesser & Co. and the National Association of... [read more]

Unconventional Wisdom: Integrating Transportation and Energy Policy

April 8, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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With gasoline prices and the effects of greenhouse emissions evermore evident, an integration of transportation, energy and climate policies is critical. Photo by richardmasoner. The New America Foundation hosted a discussion on transportation, energy and climate policy today in Washington, D.C., in an effort to investigate the role... [read more]

Designing the High-Speed Future

March 18, 2011 by Next American City
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A rendering of Diridon Station in San Jose, California, as envisioned by the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Credit: California High-Speed Rail AuthorityMuch of the controversy over high-speed rail in the United States has been centering on where to put it and who will accept it. Most recently, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida spurned... [read more]

The remarkable story of Oakland's Fruitvale Transit Village (part 1)

February 16, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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  While meeting in Oakland last week, my NRDC colleagues and I were treated to a tour of that city’s Fruitvale Transit Village, a multi-layered, inclusive, highly walkable, multiple-use development built around the Fruitvale neighborhood’s BART (rail transit) station.  We were immensely impressed, as have been many before us,... [read more]

What High Speed Rail Means for Community Design

February 9, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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In his state of the union address, President Obama called for 80 percent of Americans to have access to high-speed rail by 2025. An ambitous goal, but perhaps more achievable given Vice President Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood just announced the administration was going to invest more than $53 billion in high-speed... [read more]

Interview with Peter Calthorpe, Author of “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”

February 8, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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Peter Calthorpe, author of “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change,” is principal of Calthorpe Associates and was named as one of the 25 “innovators on the cutting edge” by Newsweek magazine for his work redefining models of growth in America. In the early 90’s, Calthorpe developed the concept of Transit Oriented Development (TOD), which... [read more]

Massive database provides a wealth of information to support transit-oriented development

October 19, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) today launched a web database that provides comprehensive information about more than 4,000 transit zones across the United States. The web tool will help developers, investors, and city officials make planning decisions that take advantage of development opportunities around transit nodes. [read more]

A Community Approach to Transit-Oriented Development in the New York Region

July 6, 2010 by Project for Public Spaces
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Over the last several months, PPS, Reconnecting America and the Regional Plan Association have been working with communities along the Interstate 287 corridor to leverage their transportation investments in correlation with the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge.  The project team has led two-day workshops in Westchester and... [read more]

Dallas Cowboys implode for smart growth

April 19, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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OK, so it wasn’t the whole Cowpokes’ organization that imploded (that only happens in the playoffs, heh), just Texas Stadium, where the team played for decades.  Allow me a bit of poetic license, will you?  This 40-year resident of Washington, DC and passionate sports fan takes a bit of pleasure at noting the implosion of... [read more]

Transit-oriented zoning to be before Cincinnati council by September

April 5, 2010 by Kevin LeMaster
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Transit-oriented development (TOD) districts could be part of Cincinnati's zoning code as soon as September, after a motion to explore them was adopted last week. Cincinnati City Councilmember Roxanne Qualls introduced the motion, which directs the Department of City Planning to draft zoning language that would promote the development... [read more]

Transit-oriented development requires more than transit and development

January 25, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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  I attend a lot of meetings and read a lot of documents and policy language using the phrase “transit-oriented development,” frequently shortened to its acronym “TOD.”  Most of us in the world of smart growth and urbanism love the concept, designed to make it more convenient for more people to use public transportation.... [read more]