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Author : Shelly Lyons
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781620651018
Some people walk and others drive cars. There are buses and trains too. How do you get around your neighborhood?
Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119564812
A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Author : Martha Elizabeth Hillman Rustad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543555660
How do you get to school or travel around a big city? If you lived in a different country, the way you travel could be completely different! Kids in Cambodia ride in paddle boats to get to floating schools on the water. People in Australia often ride a monorail around crowded cities. Take a tour around the world, and see how people get from here to there.
Author : Shelly Lyons
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Safety education
ISBN : 9781620650981
Explains how neighborhood signs help people stay safe, drive safely, and find their way around. Suggested level: junior.
Author : Daisy Allyn
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448886463
Around My Neighborhood is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.K.9 and Literacy.L.K.1. Narrative nonfiction text is supported by photographs of a home, a park, the library, a school, and a store. This book should be paired with Will's Neighborhood" (9781448888818) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.
Author : Jarrett Walker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781610911740
Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. In Human Transit, Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services. Human Transit explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development. Whether you are in the field or simply a concerned citizen, here is an accessible guide to achieving successful public transit that will enrich any community.
Author : Shelly Lyons
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781620650998
Introduces who neighbors are, discussing a variety of jobs and services they may perform.
Author : Angie Schmitt
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830835
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
Author : Charles Horton Cooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Transportation
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUDSL
Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917476
"The Transit Street Design Guide sets a new vision for how cities can harness the immense potential of transit to create active and efficient streets in neighborhoods and downtowns alike. Building on the Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide, the Transit Street Design Guide details how reliable public transportation depends on a commitment to transit at every level of design. Developed through a new peer network of NACTO members and transit agency partners, the Guide provides street transportation departments, transit operating agencies, leaders, and practitioners with the tools to actively prioritize transit on the street."--Site Web de NACTO.
Author : Matthew J. Hanka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498504928
Communities are not static or stationary organisms. They are fluid and dynamic and change over time. The role of community development in the change and transformation of a community is critical to improving and enhancing the quality of life of the community and its residents. This book examines how community development changes a community and why that change matters, while also examining the relationship between community development and social capital. When a community improves its social capital, change can happen because people can leverage their networks to produce better results for themselves. This book also looks at comprehensive community development and collective impact models and several case studies that utilize these models. It also looks at how the transformation and revitalization of a neighborhood through new housing creates opportunities for people everywhere, and how effective placemaking strategies empower diverse groups of people in a community to reimagine their public spaces and the built environment to be more livable, walkable, creative, and sustainable while fostering greater connections with people in their community.
Author : Jeffrey Tumlin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470540930
"The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeply impacting our personal well-being. Getting from A to B has never been more difficult, expensive or miserable. It doesn't have to be this way. Jeffrey Tumlin's book Sustainable Transportation Planning offers easy-to-understand, clearly explained tips and techniques that will allow us to quite literally take back our roads. Essential reading for anyone who wants to drive our transportation system out of the gridlock." -Marianne Cusato, home designer and author of Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid ?The book is full of useful ideas on nearly every page.? ? Bill DiBennedetto of Triple Pundit As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this book provides planning practitioners with the tools they need to achieve their cities? economic development, social equity and ecological sustainability goals. Starting with detailed advice for improving each mode of transportation, the book offers guidance on balancing the needs of each mode against each other, whether on a downtown street, or a small town neighborhood, or a regional network.
Author : Will Toor,Spenser Havlick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015059152937
Colleges and universities across North America are facing difficult questions about automobile use and transportation. Lack of land for new parking lots and the desire to preserve air quality are but a few of the factors leading institutions toward a new vision based upon expanded transit access, better bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and incentives that encourage less driving. Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities presents a comprehensive examination of techniques available to manage transportation in campus communities. Authors Will Toor and Spenser W. Havlick give readers the understanding they need to develop alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles, and sets forth a series of case studies that show how transportation demand management programs have worked in a variety of campus communities, ranging from small towns to large cities. The case studies in Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities highlight what works and what doesn't, as well as describing the programmatic and financial aspects involved. No other book has surveyed the topic and produced viable options for reducing the parking, pollution, land use, and traffic problems that are created by an over-reliance on automobiles by students, faculty, and staff. Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities is a unique source of information and ideas for anyone concerned with transportation planning and related issues.
Author : Brian O'Looney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1940743869
Intended as a comprehensive resource, 'Increments of Neighborhood' is a compendium of recent built work for urban neighbourhoods, encompassing the spectrum of building types financed/built by today's American real estate industry - from single family and townhouses, through 'missing middle' stacked housing, stick-built housing, large multi-family, and high-rise buildings. This publication is the only resource in the marketplace that tabulates market-rate products that fill America's cities, as well as being a comparative resource that shows how these types can be deployed in a way befitting smart-growth using sustainable principles. The only resource of its type, 'Increments of Neighborhood' will demystify the understanding of costs and type, contribute to the public realm for the non-architectural professional, and provide a breadth and range of significant new information for experienced architects who typically specialise in a particular segment of building products such as hospitals or single-family houses, information with which they are frequently unacquainted.
Author : Jolas Wittler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3949304037
FREE Soundbook with Real-Life Sounds of the Vehicles Included We all know how fascinated our kids are when they spot a big truck or an excavator. Take a journey through the city and explore different vehicles and places! On our trip through town we will - pass by construction sites, - watch firefighters in action, - ask a police officer for help, - visit car maintenance locations and - learn how the city is being cleaned. Enjoy the ride with cute illustrations and a short rhyming story, which makes it also a perfect read for bedtime. ***Free Audio-Book Inside*** For a limited time, get a free audio-book with real-life sounds. Don't miss out on it! Look inside the book for more information!
