Mixed-Income TOD
The Center for TOD was funded by the FTA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to examine the role of transit in helping to create and preserve housing affordability and mixed-income communities, the characteristics of households living near fixed-guideway transit, the interplay between housing and transportation costs, urban form and transit accessibility, the tools that are being used to promote mixed-income transit-supportive communities, and the roles that all levels of government (federal, state, region, municipal) can play.
(May 13, 2007)
Urban Land Institute
The Urban Land Institute is a nonprofit education and research institute, and an influential source of objective information on urban planning, growth, and development.
(April 13, 2007)
Surface Transportation Policy Project
The Surface Transportation Policy Project is a nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment.
(April 13, 2007)
Smart Growth America
Smart Growth America is a coalition of organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition advocates on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation, and neighborhood revitalization.
(April 13, 2007)
Project for Public Spaces
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. PPS was founded in 1975 to build upon the pioneering Street Life Project of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte.
(April 13, 2007)
Planetizen: The Planning and Development Network
Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community.
(April 13, 2007)
Federal Research Agenda on TOD and Economic Development
The Center for TOD is the only national nonprofit dedicated solely to providing best practices, research and technical assistance to support market-based TOD. We are funded to develop standards and definitions for TOD; guidance for transit system planning as well as performance criteria; models and techniques to help maximize ridership through planning and development near stations; and to provide research support and technical assistance to TOD practitioners.
(April 9, 2007)
(April 5, 2007)
Enterprise Foundation
The Enterprise Foundation is a national nonprofit with 20 years of experience providing capital and expertise for affordable housing and community development.
(April 5, 2007)
Urban Design Associates
Urban Design Associates is an urban design and architecture firm that creates cities, towns and neighborhoods. Publishers of the Urban Design Handbook, they have also gained a loyal following among public agencies and schools of urban design and architecture.
(April 5, 2007)
