Reconnecting America Menu Bar  
Up Front

Featured Stories  Feed-icon-12x12
LIVABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – TAKING ACTION FOR A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
Reconnecting America Participates in White House briefing

FTA LIVABLE COMMUNITIES WEBSITE
Federal site links to many Reconnecting America resources for the development of sustainable communities, affordable housing and transit-oriented development

TIGER GRANTS FUND WAVE OF TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION
TIGER program demonstrates Administration’s continued commitment to livability, says Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith

Best Practices 
Legal Handbook For The New Starts Process
Overview of the FTA’s New Starts project development process and the legal issues associated with it · PDF

Moving Toward Implementation: An Examination Of The Organizational And Political Structures Of Transit-Oriented Development
Explores the costs and impacts of Transit Oriented Development and addresses the rationale for designing transit-oriented neighborhoods · PDF

Overlooked Density: Rethinking Transportation Options in Suburbia
The potential exists to create more integrated, sustainable, and multi-modal development in suburbia, by capitalizing on existing suburban multifamily development densities and locations. · PDF

Projects  Feed-icon-12x12
MAKING THE TWIN CITIES MORE WALKABLE
New CTOD report provides methodology for assessing and boosting the walkability of a place

CAPTURING THE VALUE OF TRANSIT
New report by Center for Transit-Oriented Development released

FINANCING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Policy Options and Strategies in the San Francisco Bay Area

Opportunities for equitable transit-oriented development

Somerville Community Corp. study for city of Somerville

Somerville: Reconnecting America worked with the Somerville Community Corporation to identify needs and opportunities for equitable transit-oriented development in the City of Somerville, with a focus on the planned extension of the Green Line. The report highlights demographic and real estate trends, and outlines a series of strategies for achieving mixed-income TOD.

Posted November 17, 2008

Tracks

CTOD Blog

donate

Related Stories
UTAH: WE NEED TRANSIT ORIENTED COMMUNITIES
Standard Examiner

BLOGOSPHERE: DENSITY RAISES PRODUCTIVITY
The Bellows

MARYLAND: PLANNED SCIENCE CENTER DIVIDES RESIDENTS
Examiner

SAN JOSE: MILPITAS VOTES STOP LOCATION, DEVELOPMENT
San Jose Mercury News

LAKELAND: PLANNING COMMISSION REJECTS TOD CHANGES
The Ledger

QUOTE OF THE DAY
Boston Globe

BOSTON: WHAT TO DO WITH LECHMERE STATION
Wicked Local Cambridge

IMPLEMENTING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS
City of Somerville Citywide Planning Steering Committee, Feb. 16, 2010

BOSTON: SOMERVILLE & MEDFORD DIVIDED ON EXTENSION
Wicked Local

BOSTON: LAND DEAL COULD STALL COMMUTER EXPANSION
Boston Globe

More related . . .