Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821397451 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Essential Reading for Planners & Students Excellent book covering transit development in great detail. Essential reading for anyone interested in urban planning, transport planning or planning/development in the developing world.
The book will be of interest to a wide and diverse audience, including mayors, council members and other national and local policy makers, urban and transportation planners, transit-agency officials, and developers and staff of development financial institutions and others involved with TOD projects in rapidly growing and motorizing cities of the developing world.. Global best-case practices of transit-oriented metropolises that have direct relevance to cities in developing countries are first introduced. For this, the book analyzes their Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems and their impact on land development. Key institutional, regulatory, and financial constraints that hamper integration and opportunities to utilize transit to guide sustainable urban development are examined in selected cities in developing countries. Many cities in developing countries currently exhibit the pre-requisites - e.g., rapid growth, rising real incomes, and increased motorization and congestion levels - for BRT and railway investments to trigger meaningful land-use changes in economically and financially viable ways. The book formulates recommendations and implementation strategies