Karina Pallagst; et al: The Future of Shrinking Cities: Problems, Patterns and Strategies of Urban Transformation in a Global Context, 2009
Abstract: This publication is the outcome of a symposium held at UC Berkeley in February 2007, organized by the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley. It brought...

Chapple, Karen: Promising Futures: Workforce Development and Upward Mobility in Information Technology, 2005
Abstract: This study examines the potential for individuals trapped in dead-end jobs in the service economy to cross the Digital Divide into jobs in the knowledge economy. The conventional wisdom is that the lack of...

Cervero, Robert; Beutler, John: Adaptive Transit: Enhancing Suburban Transit Services, 1999
Abstract: Suburbia largely remains hostile territory for public transit in America and, indeed, much of the developed world. Transit’s market share of every type of trip is steadily eroding outside of central cities virtually the world...

Landis, John D.; Monzon, Juan Pablo; Reilly, Michael; Cogan, Chris: Development and Pilot Application of the California Urban and Biodiversity Analysis (CURBA) Model, 1998
Abstract: The California Urban and Biodiversity Analysis (CURBA) model was developed as a tool to help urban planners to evaluate the possible effects of alternative urban growth patterns and policies on biodiversity and natural habitat quality....

Bosselmann, Peter; Macdonald, Elizabeth; Kronemeyer, Thomas: Environmental Quality of Multiple Roadway Boulevards, 1997
Abstract: Transportation and land use planners generally agree that high traffic volumes are incompatible with a good residential street. Danger to pedestrians and bicyclists and emissions from traffic, such as high noise levels and poor air...

Steiner, Ruth Lorraine: Traditional Neighborhood Shopping Districts: Patterns of Use and Modes of Access, 1997
Abstract: This dissertation examines patterns of usage and modes of access to traditional shopping districts. Environmentalists and designers have advocated a return to “traditional neighborhood development,” with higher densities, mixed uses, pedestrian amenities and transit service,...

Wheeler, Stephen: Sustainable Urban Development: A Literature Review and Analysis, 1996
Abstract: This report reviews current literature on sustainable development and proposes a framework for applying this concept to city and regional planning. It begins by exploring interpretations of the concept of sustainability itself, next looks at...

Cervero, Robert: BART@20: Land Use and Development Impacts, 1995
Abstract: This purpose of this report is to provide a 20-year perspective into the land use impacts of BART. The analysis concentrates on historical changes in private residential and non-residential (e.g., commercial, industrial, office) land development...

Cervero, Robert: Rail Access Modes and Catchment Areas for the BART System, 1995
Abstract: To date, far more research has been conducted on the effects of the built environment on transit demand along mainline corridors than in the catchment zones surrounding transit stops. Pushkarev and Zupan (1977), for example,...

Landis, John; Guhathakurta, Subhrajit; Huang, William; Zhang, Ming; Fukuji, Bruce: Rail Transit Investments, Real Estate Values, and Land Use Change: A Comparative Analysis of Five California Rail Transit Systems, 1995
Abstract: Transportation systems are the glue that binds together American cities. From the first boulevard, through the horse-drawn streetcars of the 19th Century, through the electric trolleys of the early 1990s, to the freeways of the...

Bosselmann, Peter; Cervero, Robert: An Evaluation of the Market Potential for Transit-Oriented Development Using Visual Simulation Techniques, 1994
Abstract: America’s growing dependency on the private automobile is widely cited as a root cause of many of today’s urban problems – traffic congestion, air pollution, and faceless urban sprawl. In 1960, 43 million Americans commuted...

Cervero, Robert: Ridership Impacts of Transit-Focused Development in California, 1993
Abstract: This report examines evidence on the degree to which existing large-scale developments near rail stations in California have encouraged transit usage. Ridership patterns are studied for housing, office-workplace, and retail developments. In addition to quantifiying...

Cervero, Robert: Transit-Supportive Development in the United States: Experiences and Prospects, 1993
Abstract: This report examines recent experiences in the U.S. with transit-supportive developments – projects which, by design, give attention to the particular needs of transit users and pedestrians. The study focuses mainly on experiences in the...

Willoughby, Kelvin W.: Technology and the Competitive Advantage of Regions: A Study of the Biotechnology Industry in the New York State, 1993
Abstract: The study of New York’s biotechnology industry is published here in attempt to present the value of adopting a regional approach to the analysis of advanced technology industries, and to explore the extent to which...

Edward J. Blakely; Robert J. Stimson: New Cities of the Pacific Rim, 1992

William Goldsmith; Edward J. Blakely; Lisa Bornstein; David Campt; Elizabeth Mueller: Generations of Poverty: America's Underclass as an Economic and Political Dilemma, 1991
Abstract: Crowded and isolated Black and Latino neighborhoods are marked by economic deprivation and social depression. Many residents of these neighborhoods are disconnected from the larger society, no longer able to share in the values or...

David E. Dowall; P. Alan Treffeisen: Urban Development and Land and Housing Market Dynamics in Bogotá, Colombia, 1990
Abstract: Issues related to housing and land markets are a constant theme in the national life of Colombia. As Robledo (1985) declares: The rapid urbanization of Colombia during the second...

John Delafons: Aesthetic Control: A Report on Methods Used in the USA to Control the Design of Buildings, 1990
Abstract: Introduction This is the second report resulting from my tenure of a Nuffield and Leverhulme Travelling Fellowship in 1989-90. Both reports are published by IURD at Berkeley. They are...

John Delafons: Development Impact Fees and Other Devices, 1990
Abstract: Introduction This report deals with the methods that have been evolved in the USA for reallocating the costs of development infrastructure (roads, water supply, and other facilities) between the...

Peter Bosselmann; Kevin Gilson; Todd Bressi; Norman Davis; Carol Isen; Richard Sinkhoff et al.: The Future of Open Spaces on the Upper West Side, 1990
Abstract: Parks and open spaces on Manhattan's Upper West Side are an important resource for people from all parts of New York City. Central Park and Riverside Park -- which are neighborhood amenities for Upper West...

Robert Cervero; Peter Hall; John Landis: Transit Joint Development in the United States, 1990
Abstract: This report reviews transit-linked development in over two dozen U.S. cities, the history of joint development, and the evolving role of the Federal Transit Administration (formerly the Urban Mass Transit Administration). The report attempts to...

Blakely, Edward J; Fagan, Robert H: Metropolitan Strategy in Sydney: Employment Distribution and Policy Issues, 1988
Abstract: This report reviews employment issues and employment forecasts for the Sydney metropolitan region over the next 25 years as a basis for long-term metropolitan planning strategy. In particular, it examines the major forces likely to...

Manuel Castells; Lee Goh; Reginald Y. W. Kwok; Toh Lap Kee: Economic Development and Housing Policy In the Asian Pacific Rim: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong, Singapore, And Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, 1988
Abstract: At the origins of the research presented here lie a dramatic dilemma and a striking paradox. The dilemma concerns teh apparent contradiction between the use of resources to foster...

Bosselmann, Peter; Flores, Juan; Gray, William; Priestley, Thomas; Anderson, Robin; Arens, Edward et al.: Sun, Wind, and Comfort A Study of Open Spaces and Sidewalks in Four Downtown Areas, 1984
Abstract: This report describes a study by the U.C. Berkeley Environmental Simulation and Building Technology Laboratories of development in downtown San Francisco and its consequences for street level sun, wind, and thermal comfort conditions. The study...

Bosselmann, Peter; Flores, Juan; O'Hare, Terrence: Sun and Light for Downtown San Francisco, 1983
Abstract: This report recognizes the variety of urban character and scale extant in downtown San Francisco as an important frame of reference for the way in which the city is seen and experienced both culturally and...

Jonathan B. Bendor: Redundancy in Public Transit - Vol. IV: Structure, Competition, and Reliability in Planning and Operations, 1980
Abstract: In contrast to the private sector, public services in the United States are organized monopolistically. the structure of public sector monopoly has been bolstered by the conventional wisdom in public administration, which has traditionally maintained...

Landau, Martin; Chisholm, Donald; Webber, Melvin M.: Redundancy in Public Transit Vol. I: On the Idea of an Integrated Transit System, 1980

Seymour Adler: Redundancy in Public Transit - Vol III. The Political Economy of Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-63, 1980
Abstract: This report focuses on two concrete developments. One is the historical process that produced the Bay Area Rapid Transit District in 1957 and the district's particular regional rapid transit plan, approved by the voters of...

Viton, Philip A.: Redundancy in Public Transit Vol. II: The Profits of Competition in Public Transit, 1980

A. Vincent Siciliano: Entropy Considerations in Environmental Planning, 1976
Abstract: Entropy is a fundamental concept in the physcial sciences, enshrined in the second law of thermodynamics. It is also a fundamental concept in information theory. In other areas it has gained considerable currency, sometimes faddish,...

Webber, Melvin W.: The BART Experience—What Have We Learned?, 1976
Abstract: The Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) has many characteristics of a huge social experiment—in vivo, as it were. Key element in a bold scheme to structure the future of the San Francisco region, BART...

Randall Johnston Pozdena: A Methodology for Selecting Urban Transportation Projects, 1975
Abstract: "The principal function of regional rapid transit is to meet enough of the peak period demands so that the more costly alternative of relying solely on freeways...can be avoided..." This quotation from the BART...

Theodore E. Keeler; Kenneth Small: The Full Costs of Urban Tranport Part III: Automobile Costs and Final Intermodal Cost Comparisons, 1975
Abstract: This project has developed cost estimates and comparisons for the major urban transportation modes -- auto, bus, and rail -- using data from the San Francisco Bay Area. Intermodal...

Wilfred Owen: A Transport Strategy for California's Development, 1975
Abstract: The question addressed in this paper asks how to measure the value of additional expenditures for transportation compared to the value of spending for education, health, recreation, or other social services. The relevance of the...

Perlman, Janice: Methodological Notes on Complex Survey Research Involving Life History Data, 1974

Peter Fisher; Philip Viton: The Full Costs of Urban Transport. Part I: Economic Efficiency in Bus Operations; Preliminary Intermodal Cost Comparison and Policy Implications, 1974
Abstract: The downward spiral frequently experienced by transit companies when they increase fares to make up for declining demand is well known. It is characteristic of an increasing-returns-to-scale industry where consumer inputs are essential to the...

William Alonso: National Interregional Demographic Accounts: A Prototype, 1973
Abstract: New data gathered by the Census, larger computers, and significant advances in the statistical and mathematical treatment of demographic variables make it possible to conceive of a system of National Interregional Demographic Accounts. Such a...

Meier, Richard L.: PREPARING INDIAN COASTAL METROPOLISES FOR ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT, 1970

Nathan Glazer: Health Planning: Science, Power and Politics, 1970
Abstract: The reasons for health planning are obvious and compelling: people demand better facilities for health care and health services. At some point, the classic system of mixed free enterprise and charity in the provision of...

Abu-Lughod, Janet: The City is Dead-- Long Live the City, 1969

Janet Abu-Lughod: The City is Dead -- Long Live the City, 1969
Abstract: The theme of death and transfiguration recurs as a leit-motiv throughout the long history of sociological speculations about the city. Each time, so it seems, just as one particular manifestation of urbanism has approached its...

Natalie Becker; Marjorie Myhill: Power and Participation in the San Francisco Community Action Program, 1964-1967, 1967
Abstract: Probably the first real test of "maximum feasible participation" arose in San Francisco in 1964 and 1965 in a contest for power between San Francisco poverty groups and the city government. Drawing upon the momentum...