People Places Terms
These terms are the areas of interest covered by People Places. I am interested in how these topics can support and extend pedestrian-oriented places, enabled by transit, which are pleasant and healthy locations to live, work, shop, and play.
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- Public Transit
- transportation systems for moving groups of people.
- Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
- developing housing and commercial structures near a transit stop with a core area of high density that lies at an average distance of 600 meters to the transit stop.
- Pedestrian-Oriented Design
- helping pedestrians safely enjoy the urban environment. See: Arlington, VA, USA, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, St Croix Valley, MN, USA, or Smart Growth Through Community Visioning, The National Association of Realtors®.
- Complete Street
- a street that is safe and usable by all modes of transit: bus, bicycle, automobile, and pedestrians, as opposed to a street that is safe and usable only for automobiles. See: CompleteTheStreets.Net or the Complete Streets Report.
- Smart Growth
- an approach to development that aims to limit sprawl and, as a component, emphasizes alternative transit and pedestrian-oriented places.
- Traffic Calming
- an approach to slowing or regulating traffic to improve the safety and comfort of people on streets.
- Auto-Free Zone
- an area for pedestrians only; very rare throughout the world. See also: World Carfree Network / People Places: Car-Free
- Sustainable Development
- practices of building in which present needs are met, but not in a way that blocks future generations of people from meeting their needs.
- Green Design
- an approach in building that stresses energy-efficiency and environmental issues.
- Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)
- the planned outward extent of urban development created to preserve a rural open space and promote urban density.
- New Urbanism
- an urban design pattern that stresses walkability, mixed use developments, and the density that leads to urban efficiency and human interest.
- Spatial Planning
- disciplines that approach the development of the built environment and infrastructure from a variety of scales, including regional planning (large-scale), urban planning (city-scale), and architecture (building-scale).
- Urban Geography
- the study of cities, their structure, spatial patterns, and problems.
- Urban Geography
- the study of cities, their structure, spatial patterns, and problems.
- Cultural Geography
- the study of cultural products and spatial arrangment
Collections
These are lists and collections of terms related to urban studies, transportation, real estate, and urban sociology.
- International Pedestrian Lexicon
- Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Encyclopedia and glossary from Victoria (Canada) Transport Policy Institute; covers the use of transportation resources.
- Creating Quality Places: Successful Communities by Design terms used in Web site and CD.
- A New Urbanist Lexicon, by Richard McLaughlin, Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association; covers terms and concepts used in New Urbanism.
- Active Living Network glossary.
- Urban Field Glossary, Stefan Metaal's Urban Sociology Site.
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development glossary.
- Glossary for The Intermodal Transportation Database, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, US Department of Transportation.
- Glossary of Mobility-Related Terms, Texas Transportation Institute.