Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen (Transport and Mobility)

Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines that are involved in the conception and implementation of TOD to provide a comprehensive overview of the realization of this concept in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe. The book identifies the challenges facing TOD and through a series of key international case studies demonstrates ways to overcome and avoid them. The insights gleaned from these encompass policy and regulation, urban design solutions, issues for local governance, the need to work with community and the commercial realities of TOD. A key concern of urban planners has been to develop a highly accessible city within the context of reducing the need to travel, particularly by car. This concept is entitled Transit Oriented Development. This work provides an overview of the realisation of this concept in Australia, North America and Europe The Context For Transit Oriented Development -- Implementation: Tools -- Implementation: Processes -- Implementation: Community -- Implementation: Markets -- Conclusion: Making Tod Happen. Edited By Carey Curtis, John L. Renne, Luca Bertolini. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [269]-282) And Index.