The project aimed to acknowledge the history of the welfare planning and its current role for sustainable TODs, reveal the current use of places for active outdoor recreation of the TOD inhabitants, and explore the possibilities to encourage sustainable mobilities in (TODs), with special emphasis on green structure planning.
The current thrust for transit-oriented development (TOD) aims to concentrate building density around public transport nodes. However, such a strategy fosters sustainable development only if it facilitates sustainable mobilities in a wider sense, including outdoor recreation. The embedded (but disregarded) qualities from the welfare planning could strengthen such an approach.
Therefore this project aimed to:
- acknowledge the history of the welfare planning and its current role for the sustainable TODs;
- reveal the current use of places for active outdoor recreation of the TOD inhabitants, and
- explore the possibilities to encourage sustainable mobilities in TODs, with special emphasis on green structure planning.
The project contributed to an understanding of the potentials for wellbeing and sustainable leisure mobilities in compact cities, and to green structure development.
