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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"automobile dependence"”.
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Land use and automobile dependence: planning for sustainability in urban regions
… and design can contribute to reducing society's dependence on automobiles. It provides a synthesis of current literature on this subject and an analysis of this problem within the context of Canadian metropolitan areas. It discusses specific land use and design criteria for reduced automobile …
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Economic growth and automobile dependence : is there a Kuznets curve for motorization?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Habitable Walls, Courtyard Homes in Urban Places
… in the suburbs due to its inhuman scale and automobile dependence. Developers have marketed suburban living for their profits, offering no other alternative housing between suburban and urban living cores as they exist today. This thesis will explore an alternative prototypical housing type …
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Between Auto(mobile) and Building: A Study of Pedestrian Oriented Parking Lots
The automobile is undeniably an icon of our modern era. Decades of accommodating the automobile have dramatically transformed the shape and the quality of our physical environment. The typical suburban retail parking lot is one symptom of our automobile dependence. Frequently the proposed solutions …
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A GIS-based walkability index for the City of Cape Town
… transportation, yet our urban environments are automobile dependent. Automobile dependence, in turn, led to a rise in the level of inactivity amongst urban residents. Studies investigating the relationship between urban form and human health created walkability indices measuring urban …
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Conditions and effectiveness of land use as a mobility tool
… travel behavior: mode choice, trip frequency and automobile dependence. Logit models of mode choice and trip frequency are estimated to examine the importance and magnitude of land use affecting travel when travel costs and socio-demographic factors are controlled for.
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Hedge cities : gambling on regional futures
Environmental degradation, automobile dependence, anticipated rapid population growth and spatial inequity have combined to form the basis for recent North American regional plans advocating a physical alternative to diffuse, uncoordinated development. To provide a physical place in which …
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The correlational and causal investigation into the land use-transportation relationships: evidence from the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area
… of land-use and related policies in reducing automobile dependence has been the subject of heated policy debate for over two decades. Previous research has shed light on the correlations between land-use and travel. Yet a crucial knowledge gap still exists in establishing causality between the …
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Connecting Land Use and Transportation Toward Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Area
… justify the land use policies to reduce automobile dependence and achieve the goals of sustainable development in the metropolitan areas? Previous research enhanced our understanding of the connections between land use and travel behavior. It also provided implications for managing …