Up in the Air: Urban Design for Light Rail Transit Stations in Highway Medians

Loukaitou‐Sideris, Anastasia; Higgins, Harrison; Cuff, Dana; Oprea, Dan

doi:10.1080/13574809.2013.800448

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“…Development along suburban lines in residential areas is relatively straightforward (Calthorpe Associates 2011;Petheram et al 2014;Swenson and Dock 2004), NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) sentiment notwithstanding (Breznau 2004;Garde 2006;Machell, Reinhalter, and Chapple 2010). In contrast, TOD is a challenge along heavy rail lines in already dense urban cores, and nearly impossible when transit lines are "up in the air," above highways and freeways (Loukaitou-Sideris et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

Jamme

Rodríguez

Bahl

et al. 2019

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban design idea of transit-oriented development (TOD) extended the land use and transportation nexus. This review article offers a twenty-five-year retrospective of TOD literature, shaped by disciplinary, policy, and practice predilections. Although the “D” in TOD stands for the encompassing notion of “development,” most literature focused on land development in particular. Meanwhile, sustainable or community development ideas languished, and other Ds such as Density, Diversity, and Design served as an operational framework for outcome-based research. We conclude by urging renewed focus in TOD research on the original goal of developing inclusive and sustainable communities.

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Section: Research Framework: the "Ds" In Todmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

Jamme

Rodríguez

Bahl

et al. 2019

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“…While there has been an emerging body of literature studying and measuring the accessibility of the station areas, less focus has been placed on detailed examination and calculation of access networks and walkability of neighbourhoods around transit nodes [12]. The spatial structure of access networks and their patterns of connectivity offer different densities of the interface between public spaces and various premises, and therefore different opportunities to walk from/to the major stations.…”

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“…There has been far less focus on urban design dimensions associated with TODs. Of the limited studies that have constructed a good foundation for 'ideal' TOD models, often with a practical interest in their possible application through urban design, many originate from the North American cities [1,5,6,11,12]. Developing such an understanding and specifying capacities for transformational change have also been identified as crucial in many cities beyond the West, particularly Asian cities [13][14][15].…”

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“…There have been a number of prescriptive studies of policies to date in relation to TODs. However, limited comparative and systematic studies appear with the focus on fine-grained urban design issues [7,12,23,24]. While these studies at urban design scale offer valuable insights on future TOD projects, emphasizing social, formal and functional diversities in the design process, their applicability beyond cities of the global North lacks empirical investigation.…”

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Access and Forms of Urbanity in Public Space: Transit Urban Design Beyond the Global North

Peimani

Kamalipour

2020

Sustainability

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There has been an emerging interest in the study of urban design dimensions associated with Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs). However, addressing the question of how TOD principles laid out in the international literature can be explored in the context of the global South remains in an incipient stage. In this paper, we investigate the nexus between station walkable catchments and forms of urbanity around transit nodes by adopting an assemblage approach to cut across any separation of sociality and spatiality. Drawing on empirical research from two case studies in Tehran, this paper contributes to studies on transit urban design by developing two measures of accessibility—the Catchment of Accessible Public Spaces (CAPS) and Accessible Interfaces (AI). We found that the combination of high CAPS and high AI within a given time can enable streetlife intensity, which is also linked to a synergistic effect of a larger assemblage, including the number of entries and diversity of functions. We argue that a focus on both measures is critical to understand the performance and potential transformation of street networks in a TOD.

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“…However, far less attention has been directed at understanding the micro-scale spatialities and fine-grained urban design critical to transit nodes. The question of constructing a foundation for "ideal" TOD models to understand their potential applications through urban design has gained considerable currency, particularly in the North American cities, and has often been motivated by the pioneering work of Calthorpe [10][11][12]. These studies have focused on how land use could be well integrated into the broader transit system through identifying the urban design elements associated with TOD.…”

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Assembling Transit Urban Design in the Global South: Urban Morphology in Relation to Forms of Urbanity and Informality in the Public Space Surrounding Transit Stations

Peimani

Kamalipour

2022

Urban Science

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The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes. While there has been a surge of interest in investigating the agency of urban planning and design in mitigating urban sprawl and its environmental impacts by creating mixed-use, dense, and walkable places, the extent to which the public space can enable streetlife intensity in proximity to transit remains underexplored. Through extensive urban mapping and comparison of two transit nodes in Tehran, this paper articulates the key morphological elements of building density, functional mix, and access networks, how they work in relation to forms of urbanity and informality in public space around stations, and what inferences can be made on how public space within station areas work in the context of rapidly urbanising cities compared to those in Western contexts. The nexus between functional mix, retail edges, and forms of urbanity has been found critical to the spatial configuration, performance, and transformation of transit station areas. Forms of informality have also been found integral to how public space works in the context of transit urban design. This paper contributes to the newfound accent on urban design dimensions concerning TODs in the context of less formal and more congested cities of the global South.

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Up in the Air: Urban Design for Light Rail Transit Stations in Highway Medians

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

Access and Forms of Urbanity in Public Space: Transit Urban Design Beyond the Global North

Assembling Transit Urban Design in the Global South: Urban Morphology in Relation to Forms of Urbanity and Informality in the Public Space Surrounding Transit Stations

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