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U.S. Driving Decline
Submitted by LeRoy Taylor on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 2:40pmThinking of a Master Plan: The American Dream
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Escapades on Lebanon’s North Yungas Road
Submitted by wajdighoussoub on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 4:06pmThis road offers a classical example of urban planning gone wrong and a real life illustration of the intricate relationship between the evolution of road infrastructure and that of society as a whole.
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Driving and the young
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 1:06am
I just saw the recent study, "Transportation and the New Generation" put out by NJ PIRG, which seeks to explain why the young are driving less.
Figure 7 contains the results of a poll asking respondents to choose between "smart growth" and "sprawl" environments. 62 perce... read more »
"If we built cities differently, would people drive less?"
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:16amUC-Irvine Professor of Planning, Policy and Design Marlon Boarnet asks the question: "If we built cities differently, would people drive less?
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GIS mapping in Australia shows how transit reduces auto dependence
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 9:53amGIS mapping in Melbourne, Australia, on patterns of car ownership shows that transit works: the closer one is to a rail transit line, the less need there is for a car.
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The Geography of Carbon Emissions from Driving, with Maps
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 10:27amThe Center for Neighborhood Technology is releasing today a new series of GIS-based maps show
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Considering the role of density in smart growth and urbanism
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 11:20amLater this week, I am going to be participating with my friend David Dixon and marketing whiz Laurie Volk in a seminar on development density at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Archite
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How where we live affects how much we drive and what we can afford, illustrated
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 10:10amThe Urban Land Institute has produced a remarkable report that examines in depth how where we live affects how much we drive, and consequently how much we must spend on transportation and housing.
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WSJ: Americans Consuming Less Gasoline
Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 12:07pmFor the first time in 16 years (excluding the time after Hurricane Katrina), U.S. gasoline consumption has declined from the previous year.
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