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Check out Reconnecting America’s web site www.reconnectingamerica.org, the site states:

Reconnecting America is a national non-profit organization that is working to integrate transportation systems and the communities they serve, with the goal of generating lasting public and private returns, improving economic and environmental efficiency, and giving consumers more housing and mobility choices. Reconnecting America provides both the public and private sectors with an impartial, fact-based perspective on development-oriented transit and transit-oriented development, and seeks to reinvent the planning and delivery system for building regions and communities around transit and walking rather than solely around the automobile.”

This really is a great source with a wealth of information on all things related to transit-oriented design. There is a great interview up there now with Peter Calthorpe, an urban designer who was featured in Sprawling From Grace. He gives a great perspective on what constitutes good TOD (transit-oriented development). He emphasizes that it is all about walkability:

“The idea is that people are more likely to use transit if they can walk to the station than if they have to drive, park, and then get on the transit system.” Go check it out.