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    Rail and the city : shrinking our carbon footprint while reimagining urban space / Roxanne Warren.

    • Title:Rail and the city : shrinking our carbon footprint while reimagining urban space / Roxanne Warren.
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    • Author/Creator:Warren, Roxanne, author.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
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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.
    • Description:xv, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
    • Series:Urban and industrial environments.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index.
    • ISBN:9780262027809 (hardcover : alk. paper)
      0262027801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 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.
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