The relationship between land use and transportation sounds like a geeky topic.
The twins of land use and transportation usually enter our mind as separate subjects: either as transportation or as land use. Likely we would use more tangible terms such as "traffic" in the context ofcongestion or development,or when another forest is cut down for a subdivision. We see no utility to connect the two, so it is only logical that solutions would come separately, too. Too much traffic? Build more or wider roads! New people coming to a region? Build more houses! We may not always like those solutions, but there seems little that could be done about it, right?
There is hardly anything that we experience more often or more directly than land use and transportation, even though we don't think about it. It's just like gravity, which we never think about, not even when we stand on a scale to check our weigh.t Gravity becomes only interesting when it is absent (the floating astronauts in the space station), and land development and roads come into focus when something is unusual. For example, the absence of gas stations and fast food at a highway interchange may strike us as noteworthy. Or a long stretch of roadway near a city where there are no shopping centers, ranchers, mailboxes or subdivisions. If modern economics began with Adam Smith, modern location economics began with Von Thunen (1826). He was the first to develop a basic analytical model of the relationships between markets, production, and distance. THE GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS.
Development cast about along roadways and interchanges is so common that we assume the centrifugal dispersal force that scatters everything everywhere to be as normal as gravity. Until, that is, we travel to small and densely packed countries...
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Community Architect: The inseparable Twins of Land Use and Transportation
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Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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