Suburban Nation - Andres Duany [116]
traffic; congested, reasons for; induced; regional planning and; unimpeded flow of; see also roadways
traffic calming
traffic lights
trains, commuter, see rail transport
transit, see public transit
Transportation, U.S. Department of
transportation planning; automobile subsidies and; induced traffic and; regional; relationship of highways to towns in
trees: in parking lots; along streets
Trenton (New Jersey)
trucking
Turley, Henry
“twenty-minute house,”
Unwin, Raymond
urban codes; master plans and
urban entertainment centers
Urban Growth Boundary
urban infill
Urban Land Institute (ULI)
urban poor
urban/rural transition
USA Today
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. Postal Service
Utah
utilities, underground
Ventura, Michael
Vermont
Vero Beach (Florida)
Veterans Administration (VA)
villages, new, see new towns and villages
Virginia Beach (Virginia)
Virginia Department of Transportation
Visual Preference Survey
walkable neighborhoods, see pedestrian-friendly design
Wall Street Journal, The
Warwick (New York)
Washington, George
Washington, D.C.; Georgetown; L’Enfant plan for; Rock Creek Park
Washington State; see also Seattle
welfare reform
West Hollywood (California)
West Palm Beach (Florida)
wetlands
white flight
White Mountain Survey, Inc.
Whiz Kids
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (film)
Whyte, William
Williamsburg (Virginia)
Wilson, Woodrow
Winter Park (Florida)
work centers, neighborhood
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wyndcrest (Maryland)
yield streets
zoning; of building types; crime control and; developers and; gentrification and; history of; inner-city; mixed-use, see mixed-use development; public transit and; regional planning and; rewriting ordinances; single-use, see single-use zoning
Notes
a
Bill Morrish and Catherine Brown have done much to document this new frontier of decline, the “inner ring,” at the Design Center for American Urban Landscape at the University of Minnesota. Los Angeles journalist Mike Davis describes this evolving phenomenon in his book City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
b
Housing subdivisions are not the only components of sprawl with ridiculous names. Our favorite is a new section of Atlanta called Perimeter Center, a moniker that aptly sums up the confusion inherent in the suburban landscape.
c
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, 205-8. “Quite simply, it often became cheaper to buy than to rent” (205). Interestingly, Jackson notes that “the primary purpose of the legislation … was the alleviation of unemployment, which stood at about a quarter of the total work force in 1934 and which was particularly high in the construction industry” (203).
* Ibid., 249. The Interstate Highway act of 1956 provided for 41,000 miles of roadway, 90 percent paid for by the federal government, at an initial cost of $26 billion (249-50). Jackson notes that, “according to Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, 75 percent of government expenditures for transportation in the United States in the postwar generation went for highways as opposed to 1 percent for urban mass transit” (250). Still, “the government pays seven times as much to support the operation of the private car as to support public transportation” (Jane Holtz Kay, “Stuck in Gear,” D1). The preference in Washington for roads over rails was due in no small part to influence peddling by the auto industry, as continues to be the case. With and without the government’s blessing, the automakers have a history of mercenary acts, the most notorious of which was portrayed in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? In what Jim Kunstler describes as “a systematic campaign to put streetcar lines out of business all over America,” a consortium of auto, tire, and oil companies purchased and tore up over one hundred streetcar systems nationwide, an act for which General Motors was ultimately convicted of criminal conspiracy and fined a