To: Darrell L. Clarke, District 5 Council President From: Elizabeth Wang, Planning Consultant, Penn City Institute Re: Proposing a Transit-oriented Development Plan for the City of Philadelphia
———————————————————————————–
Summary
The city of Philadelphia, benefiting from its classic and contemporary cultural and historic
heritages, presents its potential as a destination for residents and visitors to gather, stay and celebrate.
To promote the city’s transits circulation and enhance urban functions with vibrancy and diversity, a
transit-oriented-development (TOD) plan should be adopted in the Philly 2050 plan. TOD mode would
alleviate congestion, decrease biofuel consumptions, provide clean environment, and further boost
economy. Your office should advocate major strategies include: 1) to enhance the inter-model
transportation network in the city and decrease people’s level of auto-dependency; 2) to achieve an
organic urban form through mixed uses, detailed design and compact development; 3) to leverage
community initiatives and public private participation using transit stations as catalysts.
Strategies
Decreasing Auto-dependency through a Multi-modal Transportation Network
This twofold strategy, as pointed out by Vuchic (1999), should on the one hand compress the
volume of private cars, and on the other hand enhance the transit-oriented system in the inner core of a
city.
To: Sean Thompson, Chair of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) From: Leila Bahrami and Elizabeth Wang, Policy Analysts at Penn Urbanistics Initiative (PUSI) Re: Continuous Growth in the Delaware Valley Region: Forecasting Demand- and Supply-Driven
Developments in 2020
————————————————————————–
1. Executive Summary
Comprehensive regional development rooted in multi-nodal growth engines has been the new
norm in the context of American urban planning. Cross-boundary collaboration brings benefits towards
resource distribution, a balanced growth and overall sustainable development. Conjoining Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and Delaware and in proximity to New York City and Washington D.C., the Delaware
Valley Region (DVR) serves as an example of regional collaboration in growth management. With the
forecasts of next ten-to-thirty years development, the region witnesses the potential of increased
population joining the workforce, along with the expansion and enhancement of regional infrastructure
networks.
This report will summarize our recent study predicting future development demand based on
the demand-driven factor of population change and the supply-driven factor of infrastructure network
enhancement.
This exercise applied geo-spatial machine learning to learn the inundation model in Calgary and predicted flooding hazard in another geography that is the city of Denver.
Celeste is a lightweight Jekyll theme that features a minimalist, content-first design. It places your content center stage and lets your readers view them in a clutter-free environment without visual distractions. It is based on Poole, the Jekyll butler, by @mdo.
Built on Poole
Poole is the Jekyll Butler, serving as an upstanding and effective foundation for Jekyll themes by @mdo. Poole, and all its derivatives (like Celeste) includes the following:
Complete Jekyll setup included (layouts, config, 404, RSS feed, posts, and a sample page)
Mobile friendly design and development
Easily scalable text and component sizing with rem units in the CSS
