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Statewide Transit-Oriented Development Study: Factors for Success in California

Provides a state-of-the-practice review of TOD and outlines strategies to encourage broader implementation

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Making Tough Streets A Little Friendlier: Bethel New Life Transforms...

A church-based community development corporation on Chicago’s west side is using a recently modernized rail transit line as the backbone of an ambitious retail and single family home development plan...

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The Returning City: Historic Preservation and Transit in the Age of Civic...

The study that resulted in this book was initiated in September 2001 to examine how decisions about public transportation, land development and redevelopment, and historic preservation have...

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Transit-Oriented Development in Four Cities

Looks at the progress of transit-oriented development in Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, and Denver

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Paved Over Surface Parking Lots or Opportunities for Tax-Generating,...

Executive SummaryThe costs—economic and social—associated with large surface parking lots has been receiving more and more attention of late. Parking lots have been credited with impeding the...

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Preserving Opportunities: Saving Affordable Homes Near Transit

Study examines federally assisted affordable housing located in close proximity to public transportation in 8 cities (2008)Preserving affordable housing near transit means more than simply saving a...

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National Award For Smart Growth Achievement

Honorees represent the best in smart growth development in 2009

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Making Smart Choices: Transit-Oriented Development Selector Analysis of South...

The South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA) is working to build transitoriented development (TOD) at the most intense level consistent with local community desires and market conditions...

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The Effects of Street Configuration on Transit Ridership

This study examines the impact of street network connectivity on transit patronage. The aim is to better understand how connectivity affects the decision to use public transportation after we control...

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Reducing Foreclosures and Environmental Impacts through Location-Efficient...

Study shows neighborhood compactness, access to public transit, and rates of vehicle ownership are key to predicting mortgage performance

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Chicago's South Suburbs: Smart Growth in Older Communities

What began as a pilot project initiated by a nonprofit organization in partnership with two declining low-income communities has become a 42-city redevelopment effort that is being duplicated in other...

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Next Stop: New Jobs

From the opening of the report: New Jobs, Better ConnectionsChicago is northeastern Illinois’ historic center of commerce and employment, yet over the last half century, economic activity has...

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Cities of Opportunity

When the first edition of Cities of Opportunity was developed, we made a decision to rank cities only in their 10 indicator categories and to forego showing overall rankings to avoid the misperception...

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Urban Growth and Decline: The Role of Population Density at the City Core

In recent decades, some cities have seen their urban centers lose population density, as residents spread farther out to suburbs and exurbs. Others have kept populous downtowns even as their environs...

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A Decision-Support Framework For Using Value Capture to Fund Public Transit:...

Executive SummaryThe federal government, through various transportation acts, such as the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century...

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TOD 205: Families And Transit-Oriented Development - Creating Complete...

Why This Book?Transit-oriented development can be used as a tool to support family-friendly communities and high-quality education. Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a mix of housing, retail and/or...

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Place Matters For Health In Cook County: Ensuring Opportunities For Good...

Executive SummaryPlace matters for health in important ways. Research demonstrates that neighborhood conditions—the quality of public schools, housing conditions, access to medical care and healthy...

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Transit Transparency: Effective Disclosure through Open Data

Executive SummaryIntroduction Public transit agencies have employed intelligent systems for determining schedules and routes and for monitoring the real-time location and status of their vehicle fleets...

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West Cook County COD+TOD Report

Leveraging Transportation Assets to Foster Livable CommunitiesIn the Chicago region, as in most US metropolitan areas, the dispersal of businesses and residents from settled communi­ties to greenfield...

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Transit-Oriented Development in the Chicago Region: Efficient and Resilient...

Executive SummaryTransit-Oriented Development in the Chicago Region, 2000–2010Mixed-use centers anchored by public transit are essential to the triple bottom line, or the economic, environmental, and...

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