Keynote Address to Urban Design Conference

March 15, 2014, Posted in  News&Updates

Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities Principal Dr. Joseph Kott gave the transportation keynote address at the 11th Annual North Carolina State University Urban Design Conference in Raleigh on March 7th. The title of this year’s conference was “Density in Place: Design Works.” Joe’s talk was entitled “Transforming Streets, Transforming Freeways: The Emerging Transportation System in America’s Communities and Metro Areas “.  Dr. Kott called the movement to create sustainable, multi-modal, context sensitive roadways “the next new frontier for sustainable cities and sustainable transportation”. Joe observed that “America is beginning to reverse the decades-long journey to automobile dependence described so well by Clay McShane in his brilliant book, ‘Down the Asphalt Path’.  In place of driving toward mobility by car only, American communities and metropolitan areas are re-tracing this fateful journey, intending this time to make urban and regional transport context-sensitive, multi-modal, and intelligently integrated with land use. In other words, links and places worthy of complete communities.”