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Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail
Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR
systems have brought about to different station-cities and their
regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better
future planning and policy of such systems. This edited volume
draws from examples of high-speed rail operations in different
cities in Europe and Asia to depict the various impacts of this
major transportation infrastructure. It attempts to distinguish the
short- and long-term impacts described in the literature,
classifying them into regional and inter-urban effects, urban
effects, and wider economic impacts. Planning challenges appear at
two major points: 1) during the initial planning stage that
includes the route and location of stations; and 2) during the
development process that follows. The case studies in the book
concentrate on a variety of topics from the impact of high-speed
rail on population growth in some station-cities, to the regional
economic impacts that an HSR system can bring about to the larger
territories it passes through, to the potential of station-cities
to better attract firms, or to experience increases in tourism and
commerce. They also assess planning strategies and experiences from
station-cities to draw lessons for future HSR planning policies.
The Chapters in this book were originally published in a special
issue of European Planning Studies.
The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich
and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the
Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011). With chapters from a
new set of contributors, this sequel offers a more comparative
perspective representing multiple voices and perspectives from the
Global South. The essays in this volume are organized in three
parts: Part I: Comparative Urbanism; Part II: Challenges; and Part
III: Opportunities. Each part contains distinct sections designed
to address specific themes, and includes a list of annotated
suggested further readings at the end of each chapter. Part I:
Comparative Urbanism examines different variants of urbanism in the
Global North and the Global South, produced by a new economic order
characterized by the mobility of labor, capital, information, and
technology. Part II: Challenges discusses some of the contemporary
challenges that cities of the Global North and the Global South are
facing and the possible role of urban design. This part discusses
spatial claims and conflicts, challenges generated by urban
informality, explosive growth or dramatic shrinkage of the urban
settlement, gentrification and displacement, and mimesis, simulacra
and lack of authenticity. Part III: Aspirations discusses some
normative goals that urban design interventions aspire to bring
about in cities of the Global North and the Global South. These
include resilience and sustainability, health,
conservation/restoration, justice, intelligence, access and
mobility, and arts and culture. The New Companion to Urban Design
is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students interested
in cities and their built environment. It offers an invaluable and
up-to-date guide to current thinking across a range of disciplines
including urban design, planning, urban studies, and geography.
How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on
individuals' mobility and safety. If individuals feel unsafe in
public transportation or on the way to it, they may avoid certain
routes or particular times of the day. This is problematic, since
research has also found that, in some cities, especially those in
the Global South, a large percentage of women are "transit
captives". Namely, they have relatively less access to non-public
forms of transportation and are, therefore, especially reliant on
public transport. This issue is important not only because it
affects people's safety but also because it influences the
long-term sustainability of a city. In a sustainable city, safety
guarantees the ability to move freely for everyone and provides a
wider sense of place attachment. Transit Crime and Sexual Violence
in Cities examines the evidence of victimization in transit
environments in countries around the world, exploring individuals'
feelings of perceived safety or lack thereof and the necessary
improvements that can make transit safer and, hence, cities more
sustainable. The book's contributions are grounded in theories at
the crossroads of several disciplines such as environmental
criminology, architecture and design, urban planning, geography,
psychology, gender and LGBTQI studies, transportation, and law
enforcement. International case studies include Los Angeles,
Vancouver, Stockholm, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, Mexico City,
Bogota, Tokyo, Guangzho, Melbourne, and Lagos, among others.
Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail
Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR
systems have brought about to different station-cities and their
regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better
future planning and policy of such systems. This edited volume
draws from examples of high-speed rail operations in different
cities in Europe and Asia to depict the various impacts of this
major transportation infrastructure. It attempts to distinguish the
short- and long-term impacts described in the literature,
classifying them into regional and inter-urban effects, urban
effects, and wider economic impacts. Planning challenges appear at
two major points: 1) during the initial planning stage that
includes the route and location of stations; and 2) during the
development process that follows. The case studies in the book
concentrate on a variety of topics from the impact of high-speed
rail on population growth in some station-cities, to the regional
economic impacts that an HSR system can bring about to the larger
territories it passes through, to the potential of station-cities
to better attract firms, or to experience increases in tourism and
commerce. They also assess planning strategies and experiences from
station-cities to draw lessons for future HSR planning policies.
The Chapters in this book were originally published in a special
issue of European Planning Studies.
Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive
identity with applications at many different scales - ranging from
the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional
landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary
public policy - multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental
justice, economic development, climate change, energy
conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable
development, community liveability, and the like. The field now
comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of
ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications,
enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and social and
natural sciences. Companion to Urban Design includes more than
fifty original contributions from internationally recognized
authorities in the field. These contributions address the following
questions: What are the important ideas that have shaped the field
and the current practice of urban design? What are the major
methods and processes that have influenced the practice of urban
design at various scales? What are the current innovations relevant
to the pedagogy of urban design? What are the lingering debates,
conflicts ad contradictions in the theory and practice of urban
design? How could urban design respond to the contemporary
challenges of climate change, sustainability, active living
initiatives, globalization, and the like? What are the significant
disciplinary influences on the theory, research and practice of
urban design in recent times? There has never before been a more
authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core,
foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design.
This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and
postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners
interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban
planning, but also in urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and
related fields.
Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive
identity with applications at many different scales - ranging from
the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional
landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary
public policy - multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental
justice, economic development, climate change, energy
conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable
development, community liveability, and the like. The field now
comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of
ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications,
enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and social and
natural sciences. Companion to Urban Design includes more than
fifty original contributions from internationally recognized
authorities in the field. These contributions address the following
questions: What are the important ideas that have shaped the field
and the current practice of urban design? What are the major
methods and processes that have influenced the practice of urban
design at various scales? What are the current innovations relevant
to the pedagogy of urban design? What are the lingering debates,
conflicts ad contradictions in the theory and practice of urban
design? How could urban design respond to the contemporary
challenges of climate change, sustainability, active living
initiatives, globalization, and the like? What are the significant
disciplinary influences on the theory, research and practice of
urban design in recent times? There has never before been a more
authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core,
foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design.
This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and
postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners
interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban
planning, but also in urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and
related fields.
This book brings together reports of original empirical studies
which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban
mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses.
Focusing on the California region, the book draws on
this local experience to formulate general lessons for other
regions and metropolitan areas. The book examines how the
COVID-19 pandemic has had different impacts on vulnerable
populations in cities. It explores the pandemic's impacts on the
transportation industry, in particular public transit, but also on
other industries and economic interests that rely on
transportation, such as freight trucking, retail and food
industries, and the gig-economy. It investigates the effect of the
viral outbreak on automobile traffic and associated air quality and
traffic safety, as well as on alternative forms of work, shopping,
and travel which have developed to accommodate the conditions it
has forced on society. With quantitative data supported with
illustrations and graphs, transportation professionals,
policymakers and students can use this book to learn
about policies and strategies that may instigate positive change in
urban transport in the post-pandemic period.Â
This book brings together reports of original empirical studies
which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban
mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses.
Focusing on the California region, the book draws on this local
experience to formulate general lessons for other regions and
metropolitan areas. The book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has
had different impacts on vulnerable populations in cities. It
explores the pandemic's impacts on the transportation industry, in
particular public transit, but also on other industries and
economic interests that rely on transportation, such as freight
trucking, retail and food industries, and the gig-economy. It
investigates the effect of the viral outbreak on automobile traffic
and associated air quality and traffic safety, as well as on
alternative forms of work, shopping, and travel which have
developed to accommodate the conditions it has forced on society.
With quantitative data supported with illustrations and graphs,
transportation professionals, policymakers and students can use
this book to learn about policies and strategies that may instigate
positive change in urban transport in the post-pandemic period.
The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich
and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the
Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011). With chapters from a
new set of contributors, this sequel offers a more comparative
perspective representing multiple voices and perspectives from the
Global South. The essays in this volume are organized in three
parts: Part I: Comparative Urbanism; Part II: Challenges; and Part
III: Opportunities. Each part contains distinct sections designed
to address specific themes, and includes a list of annotated
suggested further readings at the end of each chapter. Part I:
Comparative Urbanism examines different variants of urbanism in the
Global North and the Global South, produced by a new economic order
characterized by the mobility of labor, capital, information, and
technology. Part II: Challenges discusses some of the contemporary
challenges that cities of the Global North and the Global South are
facing and the possible role of urban design. This part discusses
spatial claims and conflicts, challenges generated by urban
informality, explosive growth or dramatic shrinkage of the urban
settlement, gentrification and displacement, and mimesis, simulacra
and lack of authenticity. Part III: Aspirations discusses some
normative goals that urban design interventions aspire to bring
about in cities of the Global North and the Global South. These
include resilience and sustainability, health,
conservation/restoration, justice, intelligence, access and
mobility, and arts and culture. The New Companion to Urban Design
is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students interested
in cities and their built environment. It offers an invaluable and
up-to-date guide to current thinking across a range of disciplines
including urban design, planning, urban studies, and geography.
How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on
individuals' mobility and safety. If individuals feel unsafe in
public transportation or on the way to it, they may avoid certain
routes or particular times of the day. This is problematic, since
research has also found that, in some cities, especially those in
the Global South, a large percentage of women are "transit
captives". Namely, they have relatively less access to non-public
forms of transportation and are, therefore, especially reliant on
public transport. This issue is important not only because it
affects people's safety but also because it influences the
long-term sustainability of a city. In a sustainable city, safety
guarantees the ability to move freely for everyone and provides a
wider sense of place attachment. Transit Crime and Sexual Violence
in Cities examines the evidence of victimization in transit
environments in countries around the world, exploring individuals'
feelings of perceived safety or lack thereof and the necessary
improvements that can make transit safer and, hence, cities more
sustainable. The book's contributions are grounded in theories at
the crossroads of several disciplines such as environmental
criminology, architecture and design, urban planning, geography,
psychology, gender and LGBTQI studies, transportation, and law
enforcement. International case studies include Los Angeles,
Vancouver, Stockholm, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, Mexico City,
Bogota, Tokyo, Guangzho, Melbourne, and Lagos, among others.
Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and
intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of
the humanities, design, and urban studies. Urban humanities is an
emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban
planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for
understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in
them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the
present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces
both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the
evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a
wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching
and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities
practices in the field. Urban humanities views the city through a
lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the
microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on
real-world projects in mega-cities in the Pacific Rim-Tokyo,
Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles-with several projects
described in detail, including playful spaces for children in
car-oriented Mexico City, a commons in a Tokyo neighborhood, and a
rolling story-telling box to promote "literary justice" in Los
Angeles.
An examination of informal urban activities-including street
vending, garage sales, and unpermitted housing-that explores their
complexity and addresses related planning and regulatory issues.
Every day in American cities street vendors spread out their wares
on sidewalks, food trucks serve lunch from the curb, and homeowners
hold sales in their front yards-examples of the wide range of
informal activities that take place largely beyond the reach of
government regulation. This book examines the "informal revolution"
in American urban life, exploring a proliferating phenomenon often
associated with developing countries rather than industrialized
ones and often dismissed by planners and policy makers as marginal
or even criminal. The case studies and analysis in The Informal
City challenge this narrow conception of informal urbanism. The
chapters look at informal urbanism across the country, empirically
and theoretically, in cities that include Los Angeles, Sacramento,
Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Kansas City, Atlantic City, and New
York City. They cover activities that range from unpermitted in-law
apartments and ad hoc support for homeless citizens to urban
agriculture, street vending and day labor. The contributors
consider the nature and underlying logic of these activities, argue
for a spatial understanding of informality and its varied settings,
and discuss regulatory, planning, and community responses.
Contributors Jacob Avery, Ginny Browne, Matt Covert, Margaret
Crawford, Will Dominie, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Jeffrey Hou, Nabil
Kamel, Gregg Kettles, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Kate Mayerson,
Alfonso Morales, Vinit Mukhija, Michael Rios, Donald Shoup, Abel
Valenzuela Jr. Mark Vallianatos, Peter M. Ward
Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how
conflicts over competing uses-from the right to sit to the right to
parade-have been negotiated. Urban sidewalks, critical but
undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political
demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and
the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On
sidewalks, decade after decade, urbanites have socialized, paraded,
and played, sold their wares, and observed city life. These many
uses often overlap and conflict, and urban residents and planners
try to include some and exclude others. In this first book-length
analysis of the sidewalk as a distinct public space, Anastasia
Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht examine the evolution of
the American urban sidewalk and trace conflicts that have arisen
over its competing uses. Drawing on historical and contemporary
examples as well as case study research and archival data from five
cities-Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle-they
discuss the characteristics of sidewalks as small urban public
spaces, and such related issues as the ambiguous boundaries of
their "public" status, contestation over specific uses, control and
regulations, and the implications for First Amendment speech and
assembly rights.
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