Suburban Gridlock

Author : Robert Cervero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351487658

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Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in suburbia. The book highlights suburban business complexes and mixed-use centers throughout the United States that have been planned and designed to reduce auto dependency and to promote ridesharing, transit usage, and other commuting alternatives.Steps taken by various municipalities to enlist the support of private interests in reducing employee trip-making and financing area-wide roadway improvements are also examined. While the analysis is national in scope, detailed case studies offer in-depth insights into the many institutional and logistical problems involved in mitigating the impact of suburban congestion.The transportation planning profession has historically focused its attention and resources on downtown access and mobility problems. Suburbs, and places beyond, have long been considered havens for travel, free from traffic jams, and ideal for leisurely weekend excursions. Over the years, transportation planning in suburbia has involved little more than adding new projects to five-year capital improvement programs. This book remains essential for planners, administrators, and citizens interested in the future of suburbia and safeguarding it from the coming transportation crisis.

Author : Robert Cervero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1315130416

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Suburban Gridlock by Robert Cervero Pdf

"Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in suburbia. The book highlights suburban business complexes and mixed-use centers throughout the United States that have been planned and designed to reduce auto dependency and to promote ridesharing, transit usage, and other commuting alternatives.Steps taken by various municipalities to enlist the support of private interests in reducing employee trip-making and financing area-wide roadway improvements are also examined. While the analysis is national in scope, detailed case studies offer in-depth insights into the many institutional and logistical problems involved in mitigating the impact of suburban congestion.The transportation planning profession has historically focused its attention and resources on downtown access and mobility problems. Suburbs, and places beyond, have long been considered havens for travel, free from traffic jams, and ideal for leisurely weekend excursions. Over the years, transportation planning in suburbia has involved little more than adding new projects to five-year capital improvement programs. This book remains essential for planners, administrators, and citizens interested in the future of suburbia and safeguarding it from the coming transportation crisis."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Cervero, Robert
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412849258

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Suburban Gridlock by Cervero, Robert Pdf

Author : Joe R. Feagin,Robert Parker
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781587981487

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Building American Cities by Joe R. Feagin,Robert Parker Pdf

This is a reprint of a 1990 book A comprehensive analysis of how cities grow, change, deteriorate and are resuscitated

Author : Robert Cervero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351048033

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America's Suburban Centers by Robert Cervero Pdf

Originally published in 1989, America’s Suburban Centers looks at how America’s suburban workplaces are being increasingly designed for automobiles rather than people. The emergence of sprawling office complexes devoid of housing, shops and other facilities is giving rise to regional congestion problems because of the ever-greater dependence on automobiles. This book argues that the low-density, single-use, and non-integrated character of America’s suburban centers is a root cause of declining levels of mobility and worsening traffic congestion.

Author : Truman A. Hartshorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business
ISBN : UGA:32108020521897

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Suburban Business Centers by Truman A. Hartshorn Pdf

Author : Peter Geoffrey Hall,Brian D. Sands,Walter C. Streeter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Choice of transportation
ISBN : NWU:35556022393276

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Managing the Suburban Commute by Peter Geoffrey Hall,Brian D. Sands,Walter C. Streeter Pdf

Author : Transit Cooperative Research Program,Urbitran Associates
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309066123

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Guidelines for Enhancing Suburban Mobility Using Public Transportation by Transit Cooperative Research Program,Urbitran Associates Pdf

Guidelines for enhancing suburban mobility: Overview and summary of findings -- Suburban transit services: The planning context -- Actions to modify and improve the overall suburban transit framework -- Circulators and shuttles -- Subscription buses and vanpools -- Summary: Lessons and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Classifying suburban environments.

Author : Jacques Lévy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351892698

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The City by Jacques Lévy Pdf

The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so. The city is thus a new topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this renewed field? Drawing together a wide range of texts from philosophers, sociologists and economist as well as geographers and urban planners, this volume provides a theoretical framework within which this question can begin to be explored.

Author : Dennis R. Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317349556

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City Politics, Pearson eText by Dennis R. Judd Pdf

This text provides a foundation for understanding the politics of America's cities and urban regions. Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity - City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics.

Author : Sandra Rosenbloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UCBK:C100973357

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Developing a Comprehensive Service Strategy to Meet a Range of Suburban Travel Needs by Sandra Rosenbloom Pdf

Author : Robert Cervero,Erick Guerra,Stefan Al
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610918343

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Beyond Mobility by Robert Cervero,Erick Guerra,Stefan Al Pdf

"Beyond Mobility" also seeks to rethink how projects are planned and designed in cities and suburbs at multiple geographic scales, from micro-designs such as parklets to corridors and city-regions. The book closes with a reflection on the opportunities and challenges in moving beyond mobility, with attention to emerging technologies such as self-driving cars and ride-hailing services and social equity topics such as accessibility, livability, and affordability.

Author : Penny Peace,Thomas M Stanback Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000303957

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The New Suburbanization by Penny Peace,Thomas M Stanback Jr Pdf

In this book fourteen large metropolitan economies are examined to show how industrial composition and jobs have changed in central cities and suburbs since 1970. Driven by the shift in emphasis from goods toward services, both central cities and suburbs have undergone dramatic changes. The analysis shows that many large central cities have experienced wrenching transformations as a result of low growth or declines in employment and population. However, these cities have continued to be the focal point of economic activity within the metropolis, becoming more narrowly specialized in high-level services, which have yielded higher average earnings. These cities are becoming increasingly dependent on commuting suburbanites for their experienced and educated labor force. In the suburbs, the cumulative effect of continuous growth since World War II has brought a different sort of transformation. The composition of employment has broadened, with sharp increases in commuting from areas outside the suburbs. Major new centers of business, consumer, and social services have developed, giving rise to agglomeration economies and posing new challenges to the social and economic structure of the central city. The book also examines employment opportunities in central cities and in suburbs with special emphasis on jobs for blacks, women, and young workers. Analysis reveals the increasing importance of educational qualifications and the role of part-time work and focuses on the problems central city blacks face in gaining employment. The prospects for city dwellers seeking suburban jobs are often limited by housing and transportation restrictions. The book closes with a critical review of suggested policy alternatives that might increase access to employment for these workers.

Author : Colin Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000465822

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Urban Economy by Colin Jones Pdf

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book. The book has a distinctive framework that considers the underlying reasons, and the consequences of urban change for real estate investors and policy makers. Part 1 covers the basics of urban economics and real estate markets, including housing and commercial. Part 2 looks at the reformulation of urban systems and the reasons why. It then considers the consequences for real estate markets and investment of decentralisation forces and emerging technology. The issues that arise for urban public policy are then discussed, notably transport policies, public finance and sustainability, before a chapter examining housing neighbourhood and housing market dynamics and a shift from spatial change to regeneration. Part 3 reverses the dominant perspective of Part 2 to assess the effectiveness of how property led policies can positively influence a local economy and urban regeneration. The chapters consider several important policy questions and constraints and draw on a number of case studies that illustrate the benefits and drawbacks. The book includes chapter objectives, self-assessment questions, chapter summaries, learning outcomes, case studies, global data and statistics and is a new textbook for core courses in urban economics and real estate economics on global Real Estate, Planning and related degree courses.

Author : Michael L. Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313016066

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The Automobile in American History and Culture by Michael L. Berger Pdf

This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.