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
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTransit-Oriented Development in Four Cities
Looks at the progress of transit-oriented development in Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, and Denver
View ArticlePaved 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...
View ArticlePreserving 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...
View ArticleNational Award For Smart Growth Achievement
Honorees represent the best in smart growth development in 2009
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleReducing 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
View ArticleChicago'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...
View ArticleNext 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...
View ArticleCities 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...
View ArticleUrban 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleTOD 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...
View ArticlePlace 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...
View ArticleTransit 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...
View ArticleWest 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...
View ArticleTransit-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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