This paper reviews the spatial, financial, and environmental costs of car parking, and the forcing effect of these factors on urban sprawl. As a means of containing sprawl, it projects the concentration of new growth within compact new residentially-based, pedestrian-zoned and landscaped communities, based upon infrastructures of short-range automated guideway transit, or peoplemovers (APMs). The advantages of this localized approach to APM deployment are seen as technical simplicity, economy, and the advancement of the more compact use of land. Further simplification of APM technologies is urged, in order that their wider affordability and urban deployment may be realized.


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    Title :

    Urban oases: Dealing with densities, and a role for affordable APM shuttles and loops


    Contributors:
    Warren, R. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 4 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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