A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation. (December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jamme, Huê-Tâm; Rodriguez, Janet; Bahl, Deepak; Banerjee, Tridib
• Is Part Of: Journal of planning education and research. Volume 39:Number 4(2019:Winter)
• Page Start: 409
• Page End: 428
• Publication Date: 2019-12
• Subjects: transit-oriented development (TOD) -- transit communities -- literature review; Regional planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; City planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; 307.12
• DOI: 10.1177/0739456X19882073
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0739-456X

Abstract

Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban design idea of transit-oriented development (TOD) extended the land use and transportation nexus. This review article offers a twenty-five-year retrospective of TOD literature, shaped by disciplinary, policy, and practice predilections. Although the "D" in TOD stands for the encompassing notion of "development, " most literature focused on land development in particular. Meanwhile, sustainable or community development ideas languished, and other Ds such as Density, Diversity, and Design served as an operational framework for outcome-based research. We conclude by urging renewed focus in TOD research on the original goal of developing inclusive and sustainable communities.