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Rail and the city : shrinking our carbon footprint while reimagining urban space / Roxanne Warren.
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Title:Rail and the city : shrinking our carbon footprint while reimagining urban space / Roxanne Warren.
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Author/Creator:Warren, Roxanne, author.
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Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: HE308 .W37 2014
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Urban transportation--United States.
Land use--United States.
Housing--United States.
Sustainable development--United States.
Urban transportation--Europe.
Land use--Europe.
Housing--Europe.
Sustainable development--Europe.
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Description:xv, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Series:Urban and industrial environments.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index.
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ISBN:9780262027809 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262027801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Perceptions of Cities and Rail, and a Changing Paradigm
political scenario, current conditions, and ecological priorities
American perceptions about cities
Mobility issues and solutions for dispersed development
changing paradigm
2. Parking Challenge to Compact and Affordable Transit-Oriented Development
Social equity in housing
Spatial and cost implications of parking provisions
Transit-oriented development
-walkability on both ends of transit trips
Reducing the parking requirement
Other challenges and opportunities in developing TOD
3. Transit Options and the Unique Features of Rail
very brief history of passenger rail in the United States
Critical attributes of the major urban transit modes
Emergence of intermediate-speed transit modes
Basic reasons for rail's practicality and popularity
Status of urban rail development
High-speed rail
existing worldwide and envisioned in the United States
4. Easing Access to Rail
Need for alternatives to car-park-and-ride
Potential for safer walking and cycling networks in the United States
Financial viability of transit linked to easier access to it
Achieving change in America
Other mini-modes for access
5. Different Speeds for Different Settings
Speeding for a high
Historical perspective on auto speeding
"traffic world" of the highway, contrasted with the "social world"
20 mph zones and "blanket" zones in England, and similar US and Irish experiments
Designing cities for the most vulnerable among us
-the example of Bogota
6. Urban Design for Pedestrian- and Transit-Oriented Cities
Traffic calming
For the downtowns
-pedestrian streets
Coordinating pedestrian streets with transit
Turning gray cities to green
7. Market to Match Ecological Truths
Climate goals
Balancing our approach to the use of energy
Reducing the dominance of the automobile
-four interrelated steps
Vested interests and politics
Current trends.