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Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation

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This manual for Smart Growth implementation offers 10 policy recommendations for each of 10 Smart Growth goals...

Parking Spaces/Community Places: Finding the Balance Through Smart Growth Solutions

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This report provides a summary of the costs of parking, the dubious criteria parking requirements are based on and offers alternative strategies...

The High Cost of Free Parking

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In this innovative book, UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup challenges traditional parking methodologies and strategies...

Transit-Oriented Development: Developing a Strategy to Measure Success

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This digest offers a strategy to systematically evaluate the potential success of transit-oriented development...

TOD Opportunities in Somerset County, New Jersey

Awarded the APA-NJ Outstanding Planning Implementation Award, this report presents an analysis of opportunities for transit-oriented development in Somerset County...

Recent Research Demonstrates Desire for TOD

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Three recent studies have demonstrated the desirability of transit-oriented development principles...

Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit

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The Urban Land Institute released a report in 2003 to help municipal officials and planners successfully implement development around transit centers...

Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing Near Transit

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This report studies the demand for housing near America’s rapid transit systems and finds that demand for such housing will likely double by 2025...

The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development

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In this book, the demographic trends that favor an increasing demand for TOD are outlined,as well as the issues of design, public policy and finance...

Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects

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This analysis of TOD practice examines its impacts, benefits, and barriers, as well as useful policies and implementation and financing tools...

Planning for Transit-Friendly Land Use: A Handbook for New Jersey Communities

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This handbook is designed to help planning officials, planning and zoning boards and communities create successful TOD environments...

Emerging European-Style Planning in the US: Transit-Oriented Development

The authors argues that the New Jersey Transit Village Initiative is an example of a new role for state planning in the United States...