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Transportation: a facilitator of and barrier to smart growth

In: Handbook on Smart Growth

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  • Timothy F. Welch
  • Steven R. Gehrke

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Anyone who has looked at satellite imagery of an urban landscape can quickly distinguish the link between transportation and land use. As jagged lines of asphalt cut through an urban core and radiate outward toward rural lands, nodes of buildings - commercial in use, then industrial, and finally residential - closely align the extending transportation system. This visual dissonance epitomizes sprawl, a catch-all phrase reflecting inefficient land use decisions. In discussions of sprawl, the villain is often transportation as the past century of auto-centric development patterns has propagated outward urban expansion. However, more sustainable modes of transportation can facilitate needed compact and smarter growth. This chapter addresses how automobility has long-informed the transportation-land use connection. It highlights four tools from the smart growth movement that can mitigate the automobile's ill-effects and offers concluding thoughts on how emerging transportation technologies may impact smart growth's future.

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  • Timothy F. Welch & Steven R. Gehrke, 2022. "Transportation: a facilitator of and barrier to smart growth," Chapters, in: Gerrit-Jan Knaap & Rebecca Lewis & Arnab Chakraborty & Katy June-Friesen (ed.), Handbook on Smart Growth, chapter 10, pages 188-205, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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