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    Beyond mobility : planning cities for people and places / Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, and Stefan Al.

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    • Title:Beyond mobility : planning cities for people and places / Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, and Stefan Al.
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    • Author/Creator:Cervero, Robert, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Guerra, Erick, author.
      Al, Stefan, author.
    • Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2017]
      ©2017

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:City planning.
      City planning--Social aspects.
      Urban transportation.
      City planning--Environmental aspects.
      City planning--Economic aspects.
      Land use, Urban.
    • Description:xiii, 278 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
    • Summary:"Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly--and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, a failure to stem traffic congestion. Every year our current transportation paradigm generates more than 1.25 million fatalities directly through traffic collisions. Worldwide, 3.2 million people died prematurely in 2010 because of air pollution, four times as many as a decade earlier. Instead of planning primarily for mobility, our cities should focus on the safety, health, and access of the people in them. Beyond Mobility is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places. This is as important, if not more important, than expediting movement. A stronger focus on accessibility and place creates better communities, environments, and economies. Rethinking how projects are planned and designed in cities and suburbs needs to occur at multiple geographic scales, from micro-designs (such as parklets), corridors (such as road-diets), and city-regions (such as an urban growth boundary). It can involve both software (a shift in policy) and hardware (a physical transformation). Moving beyond mobility must also be socially inclusive, a significant challenge in light of the price increases that typically result from creating higher quality urban spaces. There are many examples of communities across the globe working to create a seamless fit between transit and surrounding land uses, retrofit car-oriented suburbs, reclaim surplus or dangerous roadways for other activities, and revitalize neglected urban spaces like abandoned railways in urban centers. The authors draw on experiences and data from a range of cities and countries around the globe in making the case for moving beyond mobility. Throughout the book, they provide an optimistic outlook about the potential to transform places for the better. Beyond Mobility celebrates the growing demand for a shift in global thinking around place and mobility in creating better communities, environments, and economies"--Publisher's website.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781610918343 paperback
      1610918347 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Urban Recalibration
      Challenges to Creating Sustainable and Just Cities
      Case for Moving Beyond Mobility
      Contexts for Urban Recalibration
      Emerging Opportunities and Challenges
      ch. 2 Better Communities
      Increasing Social Capital and Sociability
      Shared Spaces, Complete Streets, and Safety
      Public Health and Walkability
      Social Equity, Diversity, and Opportunity
      ch. 3 Better Environments
      Defining Sustainable Cities and Transport
      Reducing Oil Dependence
      Climate Challenge: Decarbonizing Cities and Transport
      Local Pollution
      Environmental Mitigation and Urban Recalibration
      ch. 4 Better Economies
      Lifestyle Preferences and Economics
      Big Picture
      Access and Land Markets
      Freeways and Motorways
      Public Transit
      Transport Infrastructure in the Global South
      Road Restraints, Pedestrianization, and Economic Performance
      Urban Amenities and Nature
      Community Designs and Economic Performance
      ch. 5 Urban Transformations
      Dockland Conversions
      London Docklands
      Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam
      Canalside, Buffalo
      Redevelopment of Warehouse Districts
      Southside Charlotte, North Carolina
      22@Barcelona
      Rail-to-Greenway Conversions
      High Line, New York City
      Atlanta BeltLine
      Great Allegheny Passage
      Gleisdreieck Park, Berlin
      ch. 6 Suburban Transformations
      Office Park Retrofits
      Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California
      Hacienda, Pleasanton, California
      Cottle Transit Village, San Jose, California
      Edge City to Suburban TOD: Tysons, Virginia
      Revamped Malls and Shopping Centers
      Other Suburban Retrofits
      ch. 7 Transit-Oriented Development
      TOD Process: Planning and Typologies
      Node versus Place
      Nodes of Access
      TODs as Places
      TOD Planning and Typologies in Portland
      TOD Design and Guidelines
      TOD Standard
      Place Identity: Oakland's Fruitvale Station
      Pearl District, Portland, Oregon: Streetcar-Oriented Development
      Beaverton Round, Portland, Oregon: TOD's Market Limits
      Hong Kong: Rail Development, Place-Making, and Profiteering
      MTR and R+P
      R+P and TOD
      Connecting Places in Other TOD Place Types
      Green TODs
      Kid-Friendly TODs
      TOD as Adaptive Reuse: Experiences from Dallas
      ch. 8 Road Contraction
      Traffic Calming
      Car-Free Districts
      Road Dieting
      Green Connectors
      Roadway Deconstruction and Reassignments
      Urban Regeneration in Seoul
      Land Reclamation in Seoul
      Improved Transit Connectivity in Seoul
      Capitalizing the Benefits of Greenways
      San Francisco's Freeway-to-Boulevard Conversions
      Neighborhood Impacts
      Traffic and Safety Impacts
      ch. 9 Global South
      Transit Cities
      Nonmotorized Cities
      Motorcycle Cities
      Designing for a Planet of Suburbs
      Improving Suburban Conditions
      Suburban Upgrading
      Planning for Suburbs
      Enabling Mortgage Markets
      Organic Place-Making
      Designing for a Transit Metropolis
      Transit and TOD Challenges in China
      Bus Rapid Transit
      TransMilenio Experience (Bogota, Colombia)
      Experiences in Ahmedabad, India
      BRT-Land Use Integration in Guangzhou
      BRT in Indonesia
      Suburban Transit Investments
      Ciudad Azteca: A Different Kind of TOD
      Medellin Metrocable
      ch. 10 Emerging Technologies
      Ride-Hailing and Shared-Ride Services
      Driverless Cars: The Elephant in the Room
      State of Driverless Cars
      Safety
      Expanding Transit Options
      Parking Revolution
      Getting the Price of Car Travel Right
      Freight Movement in Cities
      Communication Technologies
      Realm of Possibility
      ch. 11 Toward Sustainable Urban Futures
      Density and Design
      Megatrends and Urban Futures
      Aging Societies
      Shifting Lifestyle Preferences and the Millennials
      Twenty-First-Century Employment
      Beyond Mobility Metrics
      Mobility and Sustainability
      Accessibility
      Livability
      Affordability
      Inclusive Cities.
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