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ChineseJeff Kenworthy To Talk About Urban Rail Tomorrow At Metro
Jeff Kenworthy, co-author of Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence and professor of Sustainable Cities at Curtin University (Australia), will be speaking tomorrow (Wed. April 30th) at noon in the Metro Board Room at One Gateway Plaza (the Taj Mahal).
This special talk is sponsored by the L.A. Eco-Village, CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages, Sierra Club, Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust, and So.CA.TA.
He’ll bring us up to date on all the latest research on rail in the major cities of North America, Australia, Europe and Asia comparing high, median and low rail cities with respect to a variety of quality of life issues, competitiveness with cars, comparative urban form, and economics. Lots of inspiring pictures on how to do things differently in Los Angeles. The presentation will help us see that urban rail systems are a critical element in building effective multi-modal public transport systems that create a ‘virtuous circle’ in public transport and compete more successfully with the car.
The talk also shows that cities that are more rail-oriented tend to develop better qualitative features of the urban environment such as more livable, attractive and congenial people-oriented public spaces.
This sounds like a very interesting event for those interested in urban planning, automobile dependency, and the future of rail in Los Angeles.
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Wow. Sounds great. I wish I could go.
The pdf article is interesting too.
Great! I just love those “you might be a redneck” jokes!
I would go if I didn’t have an appointment, since I take the METRO I have to leave very early….lol…
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I would have went with “are you smarter than a Metro Boardmember?”
The real question is, will the people who make the decisions on our urban transit and living be there and will they take head of just how well rail does improve the quality of urban life?
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