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Transit villages in the 21st century
- Title
- Transit villages in the 21st century / Michael Bernick, Robert Cervero.
- Author
- Bernick, Michael, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1997], ©1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Cervero, Robert.
- Description
- xii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- In response to the traffic gridlock, faceless sprawl, and disconnected land uses characterizing metropolitan regions throughout the country, America's transit village movement puts forward a vision of new communities based on a reinvigorated rail transit system. The transit village, centered around both suburban and urban rail transit stations, not only encourages transit ridership, but also embraces goals of increased neighborhood cohesion, public safety, and community revitalization.
- This groundbreaking book by two of the nation's transit experts provides the first comprehensive study of this exciting new trend in community planning. It contains detailed case studies of emerging transit villages in the United States, including Pleasant Hill and Fruitvale in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ballston and Bethesda in the Washington D.C. area, and the Mission Valley stations in San Diego.
- The book also contains case studies of the more developed transit villages in Sweden, Singapore, and Tokyo.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Transit Villages and the Contemporary Metropolis -- 2. America's Early Transit Villages -- 3. Transit Villages and Public Policy -- 4. The Built Environment and the Demand for Transit -- 5. Transit-Oriented Development and Travel Choices: Lessons from the San Francisco Bay Area -- 6. The Market for Transit Villages -- 7. San Francisco Bay Area: Transit's New Urbanism -- 8. Washington, D.C.: Post Edge City -- 9. Southern California: Transit Villages in the Heartland of the Automobile -- 10. New York: Commuter Town Revival -- 11. Stockholm: The Sustainable Metropolis -- 12. Tokyo: Transit Villages and the Private Railway -- 13. Singapore: The Master Planned Metropolis -- 14. Building Transit Villages in the Real World -- 15. Building Transit Villages in the 21st Century.
- ISBN
- 0070054754 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 96034617
- OCLC
- ocm35207874
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries