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Beyond Mobility:

Planning Cities for People and Places
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Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly'and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, a failure to stem traffic congestion. Every year our current transportation paradigm generates more than 1.25 million fatalities directly through traffic collisions. Worldwide, 3.2 million people died prematurely in 2010 because of air pollution, four times as many as a decade earlier. Instead of planning primarily for mobility, our cities should focus on the safety, health, and access of the people in them.
 
Beyond Mobility is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places. This is as important, if not more important, than expediting movement. A stronger focus on accessibility and place creates better communities, environments, and economies. Rethinking how projects are planned and designed in cities and suburbs needs to occur at multiple geographic scales, from micro-designs (such as parklets), corridors (such as road-diets), and city-regions (such as an urban growth boundary). It can involve both software (a shift in policy) and hardware (a physical transformation). Moving beyond mobility must also be socially inclusive, a significant challenge in light of the price increases that typically result from creating higher quality urban spaces.
 
There are many examples of communities across the globe working to create a seamless fit between transit and surrounding land uses, retrofit car-oriented suburbs, reclaim surplus or dangerous roadways for other activities, and revitalize neglected urban spaces like abandoned railways in urban centers.
 
The authors draw on experiences and data from a range of cities and countries around the globe in making the case for moving beyond mobility. Throughout the book, they provide an optimistic outlook about the potential to transform places for the better. Beyond Mobility celebrates the growing demand for a shift in global thinking around place and mobility in creating better communities, environments, and economies.

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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

IP Board of Directors

"With a grand vision, this book clearly articulates the crucial importance of transportation in creating better communities, environments, and economies. Beyond Mobility is a must-read for urban geographers, planners, designers, and engineers seeking ways to make future cities more sustainable."
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