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Planning for Place and Plexus provides a fresh and unique perspective on metropolitan land use and transport networks, challenging current planning strategies and offering frameworks to understand and evaluate policy. The book suggests actions for the future urban growth of metropolitan areas and includes current and cutting edge theory, findings, and recommendations which are cleverly illustrated throughout using international examples.
List of contents
1. Setting the Stage 2. Acting 3. Homebuying 4. Jobseeking 5. Travelling 6. Timing 7. Diamond of Exchange 8. Siting 9. Selling 10. Diamond of Evaluation 11. Designing 12. Assembling 13. Allocating 14. Drawing the curtain
About the author
David M. Levinson holds the RP Braun / CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering and is the Director of the Networks, Economics and Urban Systems (Nexus) Research Group at the University of Minnesota. Kevin J. Krizek is Associate Professor of Planning, Design, and Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado and Director of the Active Communities/Transportation (ACT) Research Group