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Contents
Preface
1. Urban Recalibration
Challenges to Creating Sustainable and Just Cities
The Case for Moving Beyond Mobility
Contexts for Urban Recalibration
Emerging Opportunities and Challenges
Part I: Making the Case
2. Better Communities
Increasing Social Capital and Sociability
Shared Spaces, Complete Streets, and Safety
Public Health and Walkability
Social Equity, Diversity, and Opportunity
Defining Sustainable Cities and Transport
Reducing Oil Dependence
The Climate Challenge: Decarbonizing Cities and Transport
Local Pollution
Environmental Mitigation and Urban Recalibration
4. Better Economics
Lifestyle Preferences and Economics
The Big Picture
Freeways and Motorways
Transport Infrastructure in the Global South
Road Restraints, Pedestrianization, and Economic Performance
Urban Amenities and Nature
Community Design and Economic Performance
Part II: Contexts and Cases
5. Urban Transformations
London Docklands
Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam
Canalside, Buffalo
Southside Charlotte, North Carolina
22@Barcelona
Rail-to-Greenway Conversions
The High Line, New York City
The Great Allegheny Passage
Gleisdreieck Park, Berlin
6. Suburban Transformations
Office Park Retrofits
Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California
Hacienda, Pleasanton, California
Cottle Transit Village, San Jose, California
Edge City to Suburban TOD: Tysons, Virginia
Revamped Malls and Shopping Centers
Other Suburban Retrofits
7. Transit-Oriented Development
Node versus Place
TODs as Places
TOD Planning and Typologies in Portland
TOD Design and Guidelines
The TOD Standard
Place Identity: Oakland's Fruitvale Station
The Pearl District, Portland, Oregon: Streetcar-Oriented Development
The Beaverton Round, Portland, Oregon: TOD's Market Limits
Hong Kong: Rail Development, Place-Making, and Profiteering
MTR and R+P
R+P and TOD
Green TODs
Kid-Friendly TODs
TOD as Adaptive Reuse: Experiences from Dallas
8. Road Contraction
Car-Free Districts
Road Dieting
Green Connectors
Urban Regeneration in Seoul
Land Reclamation in Seoul
Improved Transit Connectivity in Seoul
Capitalizing the benefits of Greenways
San Francisco's Freeway-to-Boulevard Conversions
Traffic and Safety Impacts
Part III: Looking Forward
9. The Global South
Transit Cities
Nonmotorized Citites
Motorcycle Cities
Designing for a Planet of Suburbs
Suburban Upgrading
Planning for Suburbs
Enabling Mortgage Markets
Designing for a Transit Metropolis
Transit and TOD Challenges in China
Bus Rapid Transit
The TransMilenio Experience (Bogota, Colombia)
BRT-Land Use Integrationin Guangzhou
BRT in Indonesia
Suburban Transit Investments
Medellin Metrocable
10. Emerging Technologies
Ride-Hailing and Shared-Ride Services
Driverless Cars: The Elephant in the Room
The State of Driverless Cars
Safety
Expanding Transit Options
A Parking Revolution
Getting the Price of Car Travel Right
Freight Movement in Cities
Communication Technologies
The Realm of Possibility
11. Toward Sustainable Urban Futures
Density and Design
Aging Societies
Twenty-First-Century Employment
Mobility and Sustainability
Accessibility
Affordability
Inclusive Cities
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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