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Automobiles, Roadways, and Parking

Putting Parking into Reverse, thoughts from UCLA Planning Professor Donald Shoup concerning the high cost of free parking.

Complete Streets introductory pamphlet from the National Complete Streets Coalition.

In the Future, the City’s Streets Are to Behave, a 2009 New York Times article about New York City Mayor Blumberg’s plans for street redesign.

A Miami Beach Event Space. Parking Space Too. - a 2011 New York Times article about innovative and multi-use parking garage design.

Design Picked for Wildlife Crossing - a 2011 New York Times article about a proposed wildlife overpass over I-70 in Colorado.

Next Generation of Wildlife Crossings Un-Vailed in ARC Competition - design competition winners for wildlife crossings over highways.

Providence, Rhode Island I-195 Highway Removal Plan - Providence’s plan to move Interstate 195 and redevelop the area voided by the highway

• Rhode Island Interstate 195 Surplus Land: Redevelopment and Marketing Analysis, a market analysis and redevelopment study with policy recommendations.
• Greater City: Providence I-195 Relocation Project web page
• Rhode Island Dept of Transportation I-195 project page
• I-195 history, including pre-construction conditions, planning, and construction, from bostonroads.com.
• I-195 Relocation Poses Big Question, a 2003 article from the Providence Phoenix that considers the pros and cons of burying electric transmission lines along I-195 in Providence.

Scenic Ohio, a scenic highway advocacy group.

You Want a Revolution, a 2008 article from Time Magazine about roundabouts in Carmel, Indiana.

Roundabout examples from Project Carmel Link - the Keystone Avenue Reconstruction Project in Carmel, Indiana.

Transit

America's Most Expensive Commutes.

Saving Money Through Public Transport.

A "world tour" of low-impact urban mobility systems.

Complete Streets introductory panphelet from the National Complete Streets Coalition.

Station Area Planning: How to Make Great Transit-Oriented Places, a TOD guidebook, broken down into station and housing typology, by Reconnecting America.

Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s HealthLine, the former Euclid Corridor.

Cyclists and Pedestrians

Now coveted: A walkable, Convenient Place Walking has become an indicator of your socioeconomic status.

Safe Routes to School program overview and background PowerPoint presentation from the National Center for Safe Routes to School.

Complete Streets introductory panphelet from the National Complete Streets Coalition.

walkinginfo.org - the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center.

Perils for Pedestrians, a video about street design.

Compreheisive Issues

Transportation-related development projects in Cleveland, a webpage on the City of Cleveland Planning Commission website.

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, available to UC students through informaworld.

Architecture Boston Magazine: Infrastructure Issue (Winter 2009)

• How We View Infrastructure Says A Lot About How We Think About infrastructure
• Things Visible and Invisible: The Graphic Representation of Infrastructural Data Yields More than a Map
• An Engineer Extols the Virtues of Efficiency, Economy, and Yes, Elegance, an interview with Princeton University Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor David P. Billington
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Transportation at MIT Rethinks Everything
• A Bridge to Somewhere: The Case for National Infrastructure Policy

The Center for Neighborhood Technology, a public policy think tank that focuses on efficient use of existing transportation and energy infrastructure.

The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform in America, a public policy recommendation report from PolicyLink and the Prevention Institute that connects transportation options with public health.

Losing Ground: The Struggle of Moderate-Income Households to Afford the Rising Costs of Housing and Transportation, report from Center for Housing Policy and CNT.