Transit Oriented Design

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In case you want to learn more about TOD's, Sustainable Green Country is sponsoring a free movie...

Film: Transit Oriented Design
When: Thu, Oct 16, 7pm – 9pm
Where: Lecture Hall in Chapman Hall, University of Tulsa

Description: Transit-Oriented Development: Reshaping the Great American City

Please join Sustainable Green Country for a free screening of this informative documentary that explores the positive aspects of successful transit-oriented development in cities throughout the United States.

Good design is good business, creating special places and yielding a higher return on investment than less thoughtful approaches. This film encourages viewers to expect and insist upon excellence in the environments around future transit stops. It addresses access to the transportation system, connections, context, density and growth, uses and activities, landscape, and beauty. Through case studies, it identifies challenges and opportunities and makes recommendations useful in the discussion of site-specific projects.

Transit-oriented development (TOD) can enrich active lifestyles, serve the elderly and disabled, increase property values, and bring vibrancy to communities. It improves transportation choices, and opens new options for where to locate commerce and housing. By encouraging less dependence on private automobile use, TOD can help improve air quality and public health. It can support safe, attractive, economically viable, and environmentally sustainable communities. It is an antidote to sprawl.

October 16th at 7:00 p.m. Lecture Hall in Chapman Hall University of Tulsa Campus Click here for Campus Map (Building 10)

Parking available at the corner of 5th & Evanston

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Here's more information about the movie, from the Denver AIA. http://www.aia150.org/bl_150_aia_denver.php

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Did anybody make it to this film?  I wanted to go, but I was stuck at the City Council meeting.