Making Sense of Place Film Series A documentary film and educational outreach project launched by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Making Sense of Place – Phoenix: The Urban Desert

Transportation

Transportation options besides the automobile exist in the United States - visit the following report and websites to learn more about transit oriented developments, transit advocacy, and bicyclist and pedestrian focused communities.

Brookings Institution - Transit Oriented Development Report
	www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/publications/belzertodexsum.htm Intensive mixed-use development projects around transit stations, commonly known as transit-oriented development or TOD, have moved into the mainstream debate over metropolitan growth and development. Such projects are generally considered to have positive benefits in terms of economic development and transit ridership. However, this report finds that true, comprehensive TOD projects remain relatively scarce in this country and that often projects labeled "transit-oriented" are merely "transit-related," in that they do not take full advantage of their potential to also be environmentally sustainable and socially just. In order to reframe the debate, this paper offers an expanded definition of TOD that focuses primarily on functions and outcomes rather than on physical form and project configuration. It identifies challenges that must be addressed and offers policy recommendations to achieve optimal TOD projects.

Community Transportation Association of America
	www.ctaa.org National, professional membership association of organizations and individuals committed to removing barriers to isolation and to improving mobility for all people. CTAA conducts research, provides technical assistance, offers educational programs and serves as an advocate in order to make coordinated community transportation available, affordable and accessible. Provides resources, on-line publications, links to related web sites, specialized technical information valuable to transit professionals and overviews of transportation issues valuable to interested citizens and groups.

National Center for Bicycling and Walking
	www.bikefed.org The NCBW works to promote more bicycle-friendly and walkable communities. They offer information, support, training, consultation services and resources to public agencies, non-governmental organizations and advocates. Provides informational resources, and outlines actions government agencies, NGOs and individual can take to create neighborhood and communities where residents bike and walk.. The site focuses on issues of public health, including physical activity promotion, chronic disease prevention and environmental health, as well as transportation, land use, public safety and injury prevention.

Walkable Communities, Inc.
	www.walkable.org A non-profit corporation organized to help communities or parts of communities become more walkable and pedestrian friendly. Services include presentations, walkable audits (to help determine specific community planning efforts), training courses, workshops, planning and visioning charettes. The organization also provides a small inventory of publications, video tapes and slide sets and photo CDs to assist people interested in the related issues of community planning and zoning, traffic calming, street and intersection design, specific bicycle and pedestrian facility design, ADA requirements and public involvement processes problems and solutions.