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This report on transportation planning was developed out of the Transportation Infrastructure: The Next Hundred Years track at the American Planning Association's National Planning Conference in Minneapolis, April 2009. The report includes expert opinions and overviews from researchers and practitioners in chapters on the federal role, transportation infrastructure and urban growth and development plans, infrastructure and global competitiveness in southern California, commercial waterways, sustainable streets, reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, and big city planning directors' approaches to infrastructure. Color photos are included. Boarnet is professor of planning, policy, and design and economics at the University of California-Irvine. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Transportation infrastructure is one of the most pressing issues for planners and communities today. In the short term, stimulus funding is being used to create jobs and fix critical systems; in the long run, communities are struggling to determine how best to restructure transport networks to encourage better land use and to foster reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. This report, edited by Marlon G. Boarnet, was compiled with an eye to the urgency and severity of the challenges that we now face. Some of the leading researchers, scholars, and practitioners in transportation planning put forth fresh best practices and visionary ideas. Contributors include Robert Cervero, Ellen Greenberg, Robert Puentes, Daniel Sperling, and Petra Todorovich. Also here is the discussion among three big-city planning directors—William Anderson (San Diego), Barbara Sporlein (Minneapolis), and Harriet Tregoning (Washington, D.C.)—that took place at APA's 2009 National Planning Conference in Minneapolis.
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