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A comprehensive how-to manual for traffic calming in the United
States. Planners and engineers can look to this manual for guidance
on the appropriate use, design, and signing and marking of
traffic-calming measures. For local officials, developers, and
community associations, it is an introduction to the goals and
tactics of traffic calming. Based
Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective
management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality,
and watershed and green-spaces. It is fundamental to efforts to
promote social justice and equity. Best Practices in Metropolitan
Transportation Planning shows how the most innovative metropolitan
planning organizations (MPOs) in the United States are addressing
these issues using their mandates to improve transportation
networks while pursuing emerging sustainability goals at the same
time. As both a policy analysis and a practical how-to guide, this
book presents cutting-edge original research on the role
accessibility plays - and should play - in transportation planning,
tracks how existing plans have sought to balance competing
priorities using scenario planning and other strategies, assesses
the results of various efforts to reduce automobile dependence in
cities, and explains how to make planning documents more powerful
and effective. In highlighting the most innovative practices
implemented by MPOs, regional planning councils, city and county
planning departments and state departments of transportation, this
book aims to influence other planning organizations, as well as
influence federal and state policy discussions and legislation.
Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its
impact has become pivotal to urban planning. A decade and a half
ago, Smart Growth America and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency sought to raise the level of the debate by sponsoring
groundbreaking research to quantitatively measure sprawl and its
quality-of-life impacts. The resulting measures are widely used in
urban research and public health. Costs of Sprawl provides a
panoramic guide to urban form in America, measures sprawl for
metropolitan areas, urbanized areas, and counties, and studies the
relationship between sprawl and quality-of-life outcomes. From this
preliminary investigation, it looks like the costs of sprawl are
varied and substantial, and the alternative of compact development
is far superior. An essential read for researchers, planners, urban
designers, policy makers, and smart growth advocates in the U.S.
and abroad, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed
analysis of one of the most critical issues in planning today.
The author draws upon case examples of some of today's most
acclaimed developments in this book, and recommends best practice
guidelines to help developers create vibrant, livable
communities-and still make money. For years, Florida's planners and
developers have had to deal with some of the most difficult growth
management problems. Now
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company. This handbook introduces community
leaders to an understanding of transportation mobility, offering
suggestions to reduce congestion, automobile dependence, and
vehicle miles of travel.
A comprehensive how-to manual for traffic calming in the United
States. Planners and engineers can look to this manual for guidance
on the appropriate use, design, and signing and marking of
traffic-calming measures. For local officials, developers, and
community associations, it is an introduction to the goals and
tactics of traffic calming. Based in part on the first
traffic-calming manual taken through a formal rule-making process
and adopted by a state department of transportation as a supplement
to its roadway design manual, this book catalogs principles that
have been modified by many local jurisdictions to match local
priorities and preferences. Standardization is key to the success
of traffic-calming initiatives, and this book explains the
processes, tools, and design needed to create a standard
traffic-calming program. It also shows how municipalities can build
needed flexibility into such programs. Signage and markings are
also key, and a chapter is devoted to these issues. This is the
book that states and municipalities need to create effective
traffic-calming programs.
Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides
fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such
as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice
for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies.
This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive and
detailed understanding of advanced quantitative methods and to
provide guidance on technical writing. Complex material is
presented in the simplest and clearest way possible using
real-world planning examples and making the theoretical content of
each chapter as tangible as possible. Hands-on techniques for a
variety of quantitative research studies are covered to provide
graduate students, university faculty, and professional researchers
with useful guidance and references. A companion to Basic
Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners, Advanced
Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners is an ideal read
for researchers who want to branch out methodologically and for
practicing planners who need to conduct advanced analyses with
planning data.
Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides
fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such
as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice
for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies.
This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive and
detailed understanding of advanced quantitative methods and to
provide guidance on technical writing. Complex material is
presented in the simplest and clearest way possible using
real-world planning examples and making the theoretical content of
each chapter as tangible as possible. Hands-on techniques for a
variety of quantitative research studies are covered to provide
graduate students, university faculty, and professional researchers
with useful guidance and references. A companion to Basic
Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners, Advanced
Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners is an ideal read
for researchers who want to branch out methodologically and for
practicing planners who need to conduct advanced analyses with
planning data.
In most planning practice and research, planners work with
quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data,
planners create stories and narratives that explain various
planning issues. Particularly, in the era of big data and data
mining, there is a stronger demand in planning practice and
research to increase capacity for data-driven storytelling. Basic
Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides readers
with comprehensive knowledge and hands-on techniques for a variety
of quantitative research studies, from descriptive statistics to
commonly used inferential statistics. It covers statistical methods
from chi-square through logistic regression and also
quasi-experimental studies. At the same time, the book provides
fundamental knowledge about research in general, such as planning
data sources and uses, conceptual frameworks, and technical
writing. The book presents relatively complex material in the
simplest and clearest way possible, and through the use of real
world planning examples, makes the theoretical and abstract content
of each chapter as tangible as possible. It will be invaluable to
students and novice researchers from planning programs,
intermediate researchers who want to branch out methodologically,
practicing planners who need to conduct basic analyses with
planning data, and anyone who consumes the research of others and
needs to judge its validity and reliability.
Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its
impact has become pivotal to urban planning. A decade and a half
ago, Smart Growth America and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency sought to raise the level of the debate by sponsoring
groundbreaking research to quantitatively measure sprawl and its
quality-of-life impacts. The resulting measures are widely used in
urban research and public health. Costs of Sprawl provides a
panoramic guide to urban form in America, measures sprawl for
metropolitan areas, urbanized areas, and counties, and studies the
relationship between sprawl and quality-of-life outcomes. From this
preliminary investigation, it looks like the costs of sprawl are
varied and substantial, and the alternative of compact development
is far superior. An essential read for researchers, planners, urban
designers, policy makers, and smart growth advocates in the U.S.
and abroad, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed
analysis of one of the most critical issues in planning today.
Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective
management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality,
and watershed and green-spaces. It is fundamental to efforts to
promote social justice and equity. Best Practices in Metropolitan
Transportation Planning shows how the most innovative metropolitan
planning organizations (MPOs) in the United States are addressing
these issues using their mandates to improve transportation
networks while pursuing emerging sustainability goals at the same
time. As both a policy analysis and a practical how-to guide, this
book presents cutting-edge original research on the role
accessibility plays - and should play - in transportation planning,
tracks how existing plans have sought to balance competing
priorities using scenario planning and other strategies, assesses
the results of various efforts to reduce automobile dependence in
cities, and explains how to make planning documents more powerful
and effective. In highlighting the most innovative practices
implemented by MPOs, regional planning councils, city and county
planning departments and state departments of transportation, this
book aims to influence other planning organizations, as well as
influence federal and state policy discussions and legislation.
In most planning practice and research, planners work with
quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data,
planners create stories and narratives that explain various
planning issues. Particularly, in the era of big data and data
mining, there is a stronger demand in planning practice and
research to increase capacity for data-driven storytelling. Basic
Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides readers
with comprehensive knowledge and hands-on techniques for a variety
of quantitative research studies, from descriptive statistics to
commonly used inferential statistics. It covers statistical methods
from chi-square through logistic regression and also
quasi-experimental studies. At the same time, the book provides
fundamental knowledge about research in general, such as planning
data sources and uses, conceptual frameworks, and technical
writing. The book presents relatively complex material in the
simplest and clearest way possible, and through the use of real
world planning examples, makes the theoretical and abstract content
of each chapter as tangible as possible. It will be invaluable to
students and novice researchers from planning programs,
intermediate researchers who want to branch out methodologically,
practicing planners who need to conduct basic analyses with
planning data, and anyone who consumes the research of others and
needs to judge its validity and reliability.
What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The
authors of "Measuring Urban Design" argue it's not an idle
question. Inviting streets are the centrepiece of thriving,
sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the
precise design elements that make an area appealing. This
accessible guide removes the mystery, providing clear methods to
measure urban design. In recent years, many "walking audit
instruments" have been developed to measure qualities like building
height, street length, and pavement width. But while easily
quantifiable, these physical features do not fully capture the
experience of walking down a street. In contrast, this book
addresses broad perceptions of street environments. It provides
operational definitions and measurement protocols of five
intangible qualities of urban design, specifically: imageability,
visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity. The
result is a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs
from architecture, urban design, and planning. Readers will also
find a case study applying the instrument to 588 streets in New
York City, which shows that it can be used effectively to measure
the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and
physical well-being. Finally, readers will find illustrated,
step-by-step instructions to use the instrument and a scoring sheet
for easy calculation of urban design quality scores. For the first
time, researchers, designers, planners, and lay people have an
empirically tested tool to measure those elusive qualities that
make us want to take a stroll.
As our overstressed highways become increasingly snarled, America's
love affair with the automobile continues to exact a frightening
toll on our roadways, environment, and quality of life. This
handbook, written especially for nontechnical readers, shows that
you don't have to be a transportation engineer to effectively
combat traffic congestion and automobile dependence. General
planners and decision makers can set a new course by adopting
broader transportation performance standards that incorporate
mobility, livability, accessibility, and sustainability. Ewing
demonstrates how manageable, affordable, and incremental changes in
traffic patterns, road and intersection design, transit schedules,
walkways and bikeways, and other factors can shrink vehicle miles
and vehicle hours traveled. He uses examples from Florida and
elsewhere to show how to implement complementary short- and
long-term strategies tailored to your community's travel
environments that will signifigantly reduce auto travel and its
associated ills. Ewing emphasizes five tools: land planning, travel
demand management, transportation system management, enhanced
transit service, and pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly design. He
demonstrates how proactive land planning, with an eye to mitigating
the demand for auto travel, is the key element in a successful
long-term approach. The book is extensively illustrated with
easy-to-understand graphs, charts, drawings, and other visual aids.
Generous endnotes will assist transportation professionals who may
want to dig deeper.
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