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PUBLICATION
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 MTI Report 01-21
Developer-Planner
Interaction in Transportation and Land Use Sustainability
Principal
Investigator: Dr. Aseem Inam
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ABSTRACT
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This study argues that significant
unmet demand exists for alternatives to conventional auto-oriented
development; and further that planning interventions that restrict densities
and land use mixing in developed areas are a major reason that this demand
remains unmet. In order to explore these hypotheses, this study carried out
two principal investigations. The first is a national survey of developers,
randomly selected from the database of the Urban Land Institute in
Washington, DC, the premiere national organization of land developers.
Overall, the survey reveals considerable interest on the part of the private
development community in developing in a fashion that is more compact than
regulations currently allow. This interest varied by region, with the
greatest interest expressed in the densely settled regions of the
mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. Developers in the Southwest and South Central
regions (Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana) expressed
considerably less interest in developing in a more dense or mixed-use fashion
than permitted by current regulation. Similarly, interest in developing more
intensely than current regulations permit varied by setting. Little such
interest exists for development in rural areas, but developers' interest in
such development in inner suburbs was especially keen.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Principal Investigator: Dr. Aseem Inam
Dr. Inam's research interests include housing (e.g.
affordable housing design), urban design (e.g. urban design as economic development), and international
development (e.g. comparative urbanism). He has worked as an architect, urban designer, and planner in
New Delhi, Mumbai, Paris, Montreal, Washington DC, St. Louis, and Los Angeles. He is a
professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University of Michigan. His degrees
include a master's in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, a master's in urban design from Washington
University, and a Ph.D. in planning from the University of Southern California.
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TECHNICAL
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MTI Report 01-21
Developer-Planner
Interaction in Transportation and Land Use Sustainability
Principal
Investigator: Dr. Aseem Inam
Published: June 2002
Keywords: Developer, Planning methods, Transportation planning, Urban
development, Urban planning
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MTI Report 01-21
Developer-Planner Interaction in
Transportation and Land Use
Sustainability
Principal Investigator: Dr. Aseem Inam
Published: June 2002
Keywords: Developer, Planning methods, Transportation
planning, Urban development, Urban planning
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