ABSTRACT
Transportation is not just about moving people from one place to another. In urban redevelopment it's also about leveraging our transportation system to create places where we want to go. It's about transforming what we already have to get what we actually want. The art and science of harnessing transportation to support the redevelopment and enrichment of our cities starts with reconceiving how we think about transportation. Just as Arlington and Portland set out on a different path as twentieth-century pioneers by rethinking transportation, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) and Tysons Corner Virginia provide twenty-first-century works in progress of rethinking transportation. Communities are increasingly approaching transportation projects such as major transit investments as part 'people-moving' and part 'city-shaping'. The scale of what is unfolding in the Denver Region with transit expansion and urban redevelopment through Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is unprecedented in modern American history.
