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Right-Sizing Parking for TODs and Mixed-Use
Submitted by tbellino on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 8:34pm.Description: The biggest challenge in a Transit-Oriented Development is getting the parking right. New national research proves what has been intuitively obvious: TODs are over-parked. Reducing parking to match actual performance has big implications for the affordability, built form, financia... read more »
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Smart Transit
Submitted by zoe on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 4:39pm.Description: Successful transit-oriented development requires a balance of transit design to welcome development, retrofitting streets to slow traffic, the right mix of development products, and achieving a community consensus. This session looks at the crosscutting elements of successful TODs ... read more »
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TOD in Distressed Communities*
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 7:03pm.Description: By 2030, demand for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is expected to double. However, rebuilding around transit stops in established yet distressed neighborhoods continues to face significant challenges. Meet these challenges with cutting-edge techniques for building mixed-income ... read more »
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New Rail Towns: If We Build it Will it Make a Difference?
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 9:18pm.Description: This session presents a snapshot of the latest innovations in American transit oriented
development (TOD). We will draw on developers’ insights on two new projects: building consensus in Pleasant Hill, California to turn a train station (BART) parking lot into a village, and the ... read more »
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Rebuilding the American City with Transit: The State of the Practice of Transit-Oriented Development
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 5:23pm.Description: There is no simple recipe for implementing transit-oriented development (TOD). This session looks at suburban case studies to find the ingredients for successful TODs. Community partnerships, understanding real estate, planning for growing smart, transit system design and the right... read more »
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Transit-Oriented Development: Making it Work in the Marketplace
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 7:28pm.Description: Intensive seminar with leading experts of new urbanism
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Re-Centering Communities Around Transit-Oriented Development
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 7:51pm.Description: Planning and design for transit-oriented development (TOD)
should be based on a neighborhood- and district-wide plan,
embracing the presence of the station itself. Whether for
new or existing places, such plans should be varied by location
and intensity based on their transect cond... read more »
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