Transit villages for the 21st century
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Transit villages for the 21st century
McGraw-Hill, c1997
- : hbk
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a guide to the new wave of "transit villages", communities that hug metropolitan rail systems in order to reduce "gridlock" and expedite growth. It shows how this new approach to urban development encourages community development, and includes case studies of successful transit villages.
Table of Contents
Part I: Transit Villages: Retrospective and Prospective.
Transit Villages and the Contemporary Metropolis.
America's Early Transit Villages.
Part II: The Case for Transit Villages.
Transit Villages and Public Policy.
The Built Environment and the Demand for Transit.
Part III: Transit Villages in America.
San Francisco Bay Area: Transit's New Urbanism.
Washington, D.
C.
: Post Edge City.
Southern California: Transit Villages in the Heartland of the Automobile.
New York: Commuter Town Revival.
IV: Transit Villages Abroad.
Stockholm: The Sustainable Metropolis.
Tokyo: Transit Villages and the Private Railway.
Singapore: The Master Planned Metropolis.
Part V: Into the Future.
Building Transit Villages in the Real World.
Building Transit Villages in the 21st Century.
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