TOD City Academy
September 15, 2019
The event was a two-day interactive workshop, organized within the framework of GPSC’s 3rd Global Meeting, that brought together government officials from 12 Latin American and Caribbean cities and 4 Chinese cities, internal technical teams and international experts, to help delegations identify barriers, challenges ahead and an action plan to implement TOD projects in their cities.
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ToD Introduction
Why is TOD important? Felipe Targa, World Bank
Rail transit development in the new era. Mr. Shuxiao Ma, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD)
Thinking globally. Carmen Martinez, Broadway Maylan
Rail transit development in the new era. Mr. Shuxiao Ma, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD)
Thinking globally. Carmen Martinez, Broadway Maylan
Angus Laurie, Llama Urban Design
The session provides an overview of the steps necessary to assess the characteristics of a city when undertaking an ToD initiative, such as the definition of the scale of work, the scope of the intervention area and the identification of stakeholders to undertake ToD projects.
Juan Felipe Pinilla, JFP Asociados
In this session, participants discuss the necessary steps to create an enabling environment and generate a governance structure for the correct implementation of ToD projects. This activity includes a role game.
Francisco Cabrera, Deloitte
This session identifies a set of financing instruments, both public and private, reviewing the tools already used by cities to achieve the development of ToD projects.
Fernando de Mello Franco, Institute of Urbanism and Studies for the Metropolis (URBEM)
This session includes a field visit, where the local expert will showcase the planning principles and design components of a real urban project. Urban design approaches for multimodal integration and public space are discussed.
Fernando de Mello Franco, Institute of Urbanism and Studies for the Metropolis (URBEM)
The Implementation session provides an overview of the tasks and sub-tasks required for the correct implementation of ToD plans, including the institutional framework and support public policies.
International best practices
Rosario metropolis for tomorrow: 1980s’ TOD plan for Seoul. Chang Gyu Choi, Urban Design Analysis Lab.(U-DAL).
Transit-oriented development by Tokyu. Masafumi Ota, Tokyu Corporation.
Preparation and implementation of a city transit-oriented development strategy in Tianjin. Richard Liu, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy
City Delegations presentations
Belo Horizonte | Bogota | Buenos Aires | Cusco | Fortaleza | Guadalajara | Habana | Lima | Quito | Sao Paulo
