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Visualizing Density

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This book demonstrate the tenets of good density—highlighting locations where density has developed organically or been handled well...

Parking Management Best Practices

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The parking management strategies described in this book can help planners increase parking facility efficiency and reduce parking demand...

Paved Over: Surface Parking Lots or Opportunities for Tax-Generating, Sustainable Development?

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This study of the Chicago area examines the potential development benefits through more intensive use of surface parking near transit...

Parking Matters

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This monograph describes the challenges of financing structured parking in New Jersey urban areas...

Who Lives in New Jersey Housing?

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This publication, an update on national work done 20 years ago, produces demographic information on household size and pupil generation...

Communicating the Benefits of Transit-Oriented Development

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This report examines two sub-regions that have capitalized on the benefits realized from transit-oriented “redevelopment” in New Jersey and Illinois...

Building Livable Communities with Transit: Planning, Developing, and Implementing Community-Sensitive Transit

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The FTA issued this manual to help local governments, transit agencies and planners address community concerns as they develop transit facilities...

Creating Walkable Places

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This new book explains how to create pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments including those with “transit-oriented cores.”...

Transit Village Symposium: “Progress and Future” Symposium Proceedings

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These proceedings cover the Second Transit Village Initiative Symposium held by the Voorhees Transportation Center and held at Rutgers University...

Housing Diversity and Affordability in New Jersey’s Transit Villages

The author evaluates the affordable housing situation of transit-oriented development within municipalities participating in the New Jersey Transit Village Initiative...

Communicating the Benefits of TOD

This report tells a story of three cities – Jersey City and Hoboken in New Jersey, and Evanston, Illinois – that have experienced a lot of development since the late 1980s, reversing decades of decline...

The Returning City: Historic Preservation and Transit in the Age of Civic Renewal

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This report demonstrates how transit and historic preservation act in complementary ways to invigorate urban and suburban neighborhoods...