Strengthening Transit Through Community PartnershipsOur Work
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topics: Transportation
The southern suburbs of Chicago grew up in the nineteenth century with a dual identity: as residential communities from which people rode the train to downtown jobs and as industrial centers that rose around the nexus of the nation’s freight rail network.
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topics: Cargo-Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
As part of the Broadening Urban Investment to Leverage Transit (BUILT) In Ohio partnership with the Office of Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and leaders in each of the three regions, we explored the impact of recent urban development patterns and identified key market opportunities in transit-...
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topics: Climate, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation, Water
Working with prime contractor Duany Plater-Zyberk, we developed an EcoDistrict plan for financing and building infrastructure to support transit zones throughout the city for the Reinvent Phoenix project.
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topics: Housing, Transportation
We were awarded a contract to manage a market assessment of the demand for real estate in Dane County, Wisconsin by the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission, supported by the HUD Regional Sustainable Communities Grant Program.
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topics: Policy, Transportation
CNT co-founder Scott Bernstein helped launch the Surface Transportation Policy Project, which put made downtown development and public transit back into federal transportation funding.
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topics: Transportation
In the early 1990s, the Chicago Transit Authority faced major budget shortfalls and put a west-side line on the chopping blocks. We helped make the case for saving the line by showing how transit can impact neighborhood development.
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topics: Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
We pioneered the Location Efficient Mortgage, a revolutionary financing tool that recognized and accounted for the savings available to people who live in location-efficient communities.
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topics: Climate, Housing, Transportation
Our research helped make the case that building affordable housing near transit can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
Priority Development Areas offer a targeted strategy for capitalizing on existing assets, like transit stations and walkable downtowns, to foster sustainable economic development.
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topics: Climate, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation, Water
EcoDistricts are the cutting edge of sustainability solutions that use a district scale to achieve greater impact. They link energy, transportation, water, and land use in an integrated, efficient resource system.