Brooklyn Streetcar Feasibility Study

Brooklyn Streetcar Feasibility Study
Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1437944833

The N.Y. Dept. of Transportation has started a 5-month study to determine the feasibility of a running a streetcar route in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook. The study will determine the current and future transportation needs of the Red Hook neighborhood and identify whether a streetcar can effectively meet these needs. It will also analyze streetcar routings and provide an initial assessment of potential streetcar alternatives, analyzing alignment, constructability, costs, and benefits. This report describes the land use, demographic, and community characteristics of Red Hook and adjacent areas and provides an overview of the existing transportation options for Red Hook¿s residents, workers, and visitors. This is a print on demand report.

The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For Transportation Deserts

The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For Transportation Deserts
Author: Bob Diamond
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2015-11-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1329689593

A fresh look at an idea who's time has come. A modern waterfront streetcar line, interconnecting the transportation deserts of the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront, with each other, and the NYC mass transit system.

Transportation Equity Act

Transportation Equity Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher:
Total Pages: 828
Release: 2005
Genre: Federal aid to transportation
ISBN:

The City Record

The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1186
Release: 1906
Genre: New York (N.Y
ISBN:

Nature’s Crossroads

Nature’s Crossroads
Author: George Vrtis
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822989107

Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, and reached well beyond their urban confines, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements, contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.

Regreening the Built Environment

Regreening the Built Environment
Author: Michael A. Richards
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2024-09-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1040126847

Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy. Healing the planet requires a combination of strategies networked across multiple scales of development, including buildings, sites, communities, and regions. Case studies from a range of locations in the United States, Denmark, Vietnam, Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, France, and the United Kingdom, among others, demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low-impact development techniques. From this, the author shows how a building can be designed that creates greenspace or generates energy; likewise, a roadway can be a parkway, an alley can be a wildlife corridor, and a parking surface can be a garden. This new edition also includes case studies that have successfully reconnected communities that were fragmented by unjust planning practices and irresponsible patterns of development, resilient design solutions in response to natural disasters, passive design strategies that can make interior spaces more efficient and healthier, and expanded discussions on capturing carbon, renewable energy, agriculture, waste, public transit, and adaptive reuse, including innovative ideas on how to reimagine the shopping mall in the era of e-commerce. The strategies presented in this book will stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.