2018 EJRNL PP PETER WILLIAM 1.pdf?
Terbatas Perpustakaan Prodi Arsitektur
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Terbatas Perpustakaan Prodi Arsitektur
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Transport infrastructure is fundamental for economic development and for enabling cities to
shift away from unsustainable automobile dependence. These agendas are coming together but the tools
and processes to create less automobile-dependent cities are not well developed. The purpose of this paper
is to suggest how the planning and assessment process can help to achieve this goal of integration.
Design/methodology/approach – Understanding how cities are shaped by transport priorities
through urban fabric theory creates an approach to the planning and assessment process in transport
and town planning that can help achieve the purpose.
Findings – Four tools are developed from this theory: first, a strategic framework that includes the kind
of urban fabric that any project is located within; second, benefit cost ratios that include wider economic
benefits, especially agglomeration economies in each fabric; third, avoidable costs that assess lost
opportunities from the kind of urban development facilitated by the infrastructure chosen; and finally,
value capture opportunities that can help finance the infrastructure if they are used to create walking and
transit fabric.
Research limitations/implications – Detailed application to the standard transport and town
planning tools should now proceed to see how they can be adapted to each urban fabric, not just
automobile city fabric.
Practical implications – Recognising, respecting and rejuvenating each fabric can be implemented
immediately.
Social implications – Urban lifestyle choices are best understood by estimating the potential
demand for each market and building to these.
Originality/value – The urban fabric tools outlined provide the best way of integrating sustainable
development goals into how cities are planned and transport projects are assessed.