A 2005 report "Some Facts To Counter The Myths About Higher Density," authored by the Urban Land Institute along with the National Multi Housing Council, Sierra Club and the American Institute of Architects, has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.

A pair of reports provided as background documents for the Center for Transit-Oriented Development webinar "Making Joint Development Work: the Federal, Transit Agency and Business Perspective" have been added to the Resource Center Best Practices.

With 48 miles of FasTracks now under construction, transit-oriented development has the potential to capture roughly half of all Front Range growth in compact communities. With this region poised to grow again, metro Denver has an opportunity to showcase its transit system and its development opportunities to a national audience of developers, lenders, brokers, investors, and companies seeking to locate within TOD.

Tom Low of DPZ in Charlotte discusses the initial places where New Urbanists thought more sustainable infrastructure could be used.  He also talks a bit about how to deal with engineers that will try to gold plate the infrastructure as well as the acceptance of more environmental principles. 

While there are a lot of typologies created around rapid transit networks that only include rail in this country, that doesn't mean we can't plan land uses around frequent bus service.  In fact, in this video below CTOD Director Sam Zimbabwe discusses (go ahead and click!, it's less than a minute of your time) the need to focus not on the transit technology but the transit service frequency when thinking about how to change land uses. 

Continuing with the second video about Typologies, Sam Zimbabwe discusses what cities and regions need to think about before creating a typology.  What are the goals?  Is it affordable housing? Is it access?  Increased development?  Check out what Sam has to say, and stay tuned for more! 

We've been talking a lot about the website lately and highlighting special pages, but I wanted to focus on one in particular today.  Value Capture.  Our colleague at Strategic Economics, Nadine Fogarty, has written extensively on the subject including a paper called "Capturing the Value of Transit".  There has been a lot of research on this subject recently and lots of attention has been paid to it as a way to plug the funding gap.  But if you want to know where to find more papers and resources on the subject, look no further than our Value Capture featured topic page.  There you'll find over 30 papers that focus on the subject.  But don't take our word for it, Elmo loves it too.

New research by David M. Levinson and Emilia Istrate from the Brookings Institute looks at capturing the value generated by improved transportation access in order to pay for more improvements. Key to this concept is the "virtuous circle."