Smart growth is an approach to urban planning that provides a framework for making
community development decisions. Despite its growing use, it is not known whether smart …

As a spatial concept, density is a useful tool in predicting and controlling land use. However,
policymakers, practitioners, academics and citizens are often uncertain about how density …

This article investigates the role of power and ideology in the endogenous formation of
policy networks. According to the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), shared ideology …

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is
therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and towns …

The research presented here argues that identifying the impacts of rail transit on property
values is not possible without estimates of both price gradients to transit stations as well as …

Problem: Planning studies of land use and travel behavior focus on regression analysis of
travel as a function of traveler demographics and land use near study subjects' residences …

Studies that model the effects of land use on commuting generally use a trip-based
approach or a more aggregated individual-based approach: ie commuting is conceptualized …

This paper reports results from a detailed travel diary survey of 2125 residents in the South
Bay area of Los Angeles County—a mature, auto-oriented suburban region. Study areas …

This paper applies both semiparametric and parametric approaches to explore the effect of
population density, freeway road density, and congestion on household gasoline …

How to sustain rapid economic and urban growth with minimised detriment to environment is
a key challenge for sustainable development and climate change mitigation in developing …