Persistent Challenges and Potential Solutions: Equitable TOD

Thomas, Ren; Bertolini, Luca

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48470-5_4

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“…Promoted by the World Bank as a model capable of overcoming the structural dysfunctions of mega-cities in emerging countries [110], while pursuing sustainable mobility, it usually results in an increase in real estate values in the best-serviced urban areas, leading to gentrification, which exacerbates, rather than heals, mobility injustice relating to social conditions [111,112]. Revisiting the model in terms of eTOD [113,114] entails the adoption of accompanying institutional measures aimed at involving the communities concerned in land use and planning processes, protecting low-income residents and local business, and supporting affordable housing programs along the transit lines to prevent predictable degenerative effects and restore TOD to its transformational significance.…”

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Regenerative Streets: Pathways towards the Post-Automobile City

Alberti

2023

Sustainability

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The subject of the paper is the street, seen as a structuring and emblematic element of urban settlement. The topic is addressed from the lens of regenerative design, whose underlying whole-system, multi-scalar, and dynamic approach can find urban connections to be a fruitful field of experimentation from the perspective of the post-automobile city. The first part of the paper traces the stages of the transport mechanization process and related impacts on urban patterns, emphasizing the voices critical of reducing streets to mere traffic channels that have accompanied it, until the sustainability discourse led to a general rethinking of how mobility should be planned in cities. The second part of the paper reviews alternative urban visions to the still prevailing car-oriented model, which re-actualize the idea of the street as a multifunctional space, providing social and environmental ‘returns’ in addition to its role as a transport infrastructure. The notion of the street as a ‘space of potential’ is then developed through an inductive classification of regenerative actions at different scales, both material and immaterial, as well as permanent and temporary, thus providing a unifying conceptual framework for further research and practical applications in the fields of urban design and sustainable mobility.

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