Beyond Mobility : Planning Cities for People and Places.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Urban Recalibration -- Challenges to Creating Sustainable and Just Cities -- The Case for Moving Beyond Mobility -- Contexts for Urban Recalibration -- Emerging Opportunities and Challenges -- Part I: Making the Case -- 2. Better Communities -- Increasing Social Capital and Sociability -- Shared Spaces, Complete Streets, and Safety -- Public Health and Walkability -- Social Equity, Diversity, and Opportunity -- 3. Better Environments -- Defining Sustainable Cities and Transport -- Reducing Oil Dependence -- The Climate Challenge: Decarbonizing Cities and Transport -- Local Pollution -- Environmental Mitigation and Urban Recalibration -- 4. Better Economics -- Lifestyle Preferences and Economics -- The 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 Design and Economic Performance -- Part II: Contexts and Cases -- 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 -- The High Line, New York City -- The Atlanta BeltLine -- The Great Allegheny Passage -- Gleisdreieck Park, Berlin -- 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 -- 7. Transit-Oriented Development -- The TOD Process: Planning and Typologies -- Node versus Place.

Nodes of Access -- TODs as Places -- TOD Planning and Typologies in Portland -- TOD Design and Guidelines -- The TOD Standard -- Place Identity: Oakland's Fruitvale Station -- The Pearl District, Portland, Oregon: Streetcar-Oriented Development -- The 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 -- 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 -- Part III: Looking Forward -- 9. The Global South -- Transit Cities -- Nonmotorized Citites -- 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 -- The TransMilenio Experience (Bogota, Colombia) -- Experiences in Ahmedabad, India -- BRT-Land Use Integrationin Guangzhou -- BRT in Indonesia -- Suburban Transit Investments -- Ciudad Azteca: A Different Kind of TOD -- Medellin Metrocable -- 10. Emerging Technologies -- Ride-Hailing and Shared-Ride Services -- Driverless Cars: The Elephant in the Room -- The State of Driverless Cars -- Safety -- Expanding Transit Options -- A Parking Revolution -- Getting the Price of Car Travel Right -- Freight Movement in Cities -- Communication Technologies.

The Realm of Possibility -- 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 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- IP Board of Directors.

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