Neighborhood-scale urban form typologies of large metropolitan areas: Observations on Istanbul, Cairo, and Tehran

Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 170-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Houshmand E. Masoumi ◽  
Fatih Terzi ◽  
Yehya M. Serag
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Neighborhood Scale

Pretest-Posttest Strategy for Researching Neighborhood-Scale Urban Form and Travel Behavior

2000 ◽  
Vol 1722 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Krizek
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Neighborhood Scale ◽  
The Impact

Communities are increasingly looking to land use planning strategies based on a less auto-dependent urban form to reduce the need for travel, especially drive-alone travel. In recent years, several studies have attempted to test the impact urban form has on travel behavior to determine if such designs are warranted. The results of these studies are mixed because of several shortcomings. Some shortcomings can be attributed to data availability; others are a product of the techniques used to characterize urban form or travel. Still other shortcomings are embedded in the strategies employed, using cross-sectional travel data and correlating travel outcomes with urban form. The line of research is being extended, aimed at isolating the influence of urban form on travel behavior; a new research strategy is presented using longitudinal travel data in concert with detailed measures of travel behavior and urban form. Data sources from the Puget Sound are described and a research strategy is presented that permits a pretest-posttest analysis of households’ travel behavior before and after they changed residential location. Early results show few changes in household travel behavior after a move, suggesting that attitudes toward travel are firmly entrenched and postmove travel provides little insight into how changes in urban form affect travel. Although a pretest-posttest makes valiant strides in shedding new light on the matter, the complex phenomenon being addressed requires myriad approaches. More comprehensive research techniques and even research approaches based on different different traditions are much needed to better understand how urban form and travel interact.

How do low-income commuters get to work in US and Mexican cities? A comparative empirical assessment

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802096544
Author(s):  
Erick Guerra ◽  
Shengxiao Li ◽  
Ariadna Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Housing Type ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
In Transit

This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type and socioeconomic factors covary with individuals’ commute mode choice for 1.2 million low-income workers in the USA and Mexico. Comparing the commute patterns of low-income households across the USA–Mexico border sheds light on the consistency of estimated relationships across global contexts and the likely transferability of transportation and land use policies from the Global North to the Global South. We find many common relationships on each side of the border, despite substantial socioeconomic and urban differences. For example, wealthier and better-educated low-income workers in low-density metropolitan areas with substantial road supply are more likely to drive to work and less likely to use active modes. We also find some considerable differences between the magnitude and even direction of associations between predictor variables and commuter mode choice. In terms of public policy, efforts to reduce driving or promote compact development are more likely to reduce driving and more likely to be pro-poor in Mexico than in the USA. In Mexico, just 13% of low-income workers commute by car and dense urban form is relatively strongly associated with increases in transit, non-motorised modes and working at home. High rates of driving and auto-oriented urban form make policies to reduce driving particularly likely to be regressive in most US metropolitan areas.

Urban Form, Air Pollution, and CO2Emissions in Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Bereitschaft ◽  
Keith Debbage
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Metropolitan Areas

scholarly journals Transit Impacts on Jobs, People and Real Estate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Nelson ◽  
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Robert Hibberd ◽  
Kristina Currans ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
The Third

This report is comprised of five substantive elements. The first is crafting a scientifically sound framework for identifying landscapes within the metropolitan areas we studied. The second is applying those Place Typologies and spatial analysis to economic and demographic change for the transit system in each metropolitan area. The third is analyzing how real estate markets respond to transit system proximity with special reference to the Place Typologies. Fourth, this is followed by specialized studies into how urban form and society are shaped by transit systems. The fifth is providing an overall perspective of our research as well as a framework for unlocking the potential to leverage economic benefits of transit to advance social well-being.

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