The initial answer: Neighborhood Kits, which are embeddable widgets profiling everything about a neighborhood, including restaurants, schools, commutes and development news.
Commuting population growth.
The tricky commute slowed Greenpoint's development even as recent real estate in neighboring Williamsburg was booming.
This panel considered labor's engagement in developing policies to increase the use of mass transit and to shorten commutes through transit-oriented development, while grappling with new challenges such as the affordable housing crisis, ride-hailing services, and self-driving vehicles.
The increasing resident population and the development of a commuting population arriving by train each day led to a high level of traffic congestion with huge numbers of carts, cabs and omnibuses filling the roads and up to 200,000 people entering the City of London, the commercial heart, each day on foot.
Understanding the correlates and determinants of active commuting to school aids the development of strategies to increase rates of active commuting in young people (Tudor-Locke et al., 2001).
Because the highway shortened the commute by car to Manhattan, development pressures intensified in North Castle.
Shortage of Land -- Consider Your Commute A shortage of prime land pushes newer development deeper into exurbs, forcing long commutes on already congested roads.
"The industrial revolution, garden cities, commuting, the car and contemporary housing developments – all have had an impact on our homes," says Althorpe.
With flights costing as much as $350 per round trip, it's hard not to wonder whether the commute is a good use of development money.
By 1950, when 80% of Levittown's men commuted to jobs in Manhattan, the development had set an example for countless American bedroom communities still to come.
