The complexity of urbanism is such that it is leading to replan the way of understanding cities, their architecture, habitat, transit, towards a better understanding and balance between the user and their environment.
The TOD (Transit Oriented Development) Standard is a tool that helps assess the shape and urban development . Address the growth that maximizes the benefits of public transportation, while emphasizing strongly to its users, the people. to this form of design translated into Spanish is called “Transport Oriented Development” (DOT)
The DOT standard describes eight basic principles of urban design and land use, each supported by specific performance objectives and indicators easily measurable, or metrics. Together, they promote safe neighborhoods, balanced and vibrant around the seasons; networks short and well connected for pedestrians and cyclists; densities that ensure local services and public transport; minimal car traffic and interference from parking lot. THE transportation-oriented development (DOT) is a response to urban sprawl unsustainable, to the dependent of the car, to traffic deficient, decadent and poor that has characterized the growth of cities around the world in the last century.
The Standard identifies a small number of objectives of performance for each principle and some measurement indicators for each “Target” based on ease of measurement and the closest possible approximation to performance on the goals. In order to see the objectives in better detail, We present the following image in which the eight basic principles of the city TOD . (Clicking on the image enlarges it in a new one) window)
The DOT methodology can be used both for criteria of selection of projects (Noting: A plan or design can use the DOT Standard for evaluation purposes, but it is not eligible for recognition until built) as for the evaluation of an area. All of the above we can identify it in a manual, which breaks down each section with a numerical identification that will determine the quality of the project or area, as well as the weak points or strong that we can find.
Manual Oriented Development to Transport in the city DOT … HERE .
Note: Images and some information of the article extracted from the previously reviewed report whose origin comes from portal www.itdp.org
In this subject, one of the greatest connoisseurs of the behavior of cities is the study Gehl Architects (Deserves a back through its portal) and we already talked about it in the article ¿ How can we learn from the cities ?. The study has carried out a film – not yet released in Spain, or so I think – which will be deserving of its viewing to be able to understand the behavior of cities named A Scale Humana (The Human Scale).
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