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[[File:Map of Stockholm development between 1930 and 1990.tiff|thumb|right|Evolution of Stockholm as a Transit Metropolis, 1930 to 1990, with urbanization following the [[Stockholm metro|Tunnelbana]] metro line, built in advance of demand to help guide regional growth; Source: R. Cervero, ''The Transit Metropolis'', 1998]]
{{Short description|Regional transit development}}
[[File:Electric railway journal (1911) (14571857689).jpg|thumb|Interurban network in the Midwestern United States in 1911]]
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Around the world, mass transit have been struggling to compete with private automobile and in many places its market is eroding. Transit metropolis and [[Transit-oriented development|TOD]] are among the planning strategies being introduced to help reserve ridership losses and advance more sustainable patterns of urban development.
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Transit metropolises recognize that one or two [[Transit-oriented development|TODs]] as islands in a sea of automobile-oriented development (AOD) will do little to get people out of cars and into trains and buses. Only when [[Transit-oriented development|TODs]] are organized along linear corridors, as in [[Stockholm]], [[Copenhagen]] and [[Curitiba]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Suzuki|first1=Hiroaki|last2=Cervero|first2=Robert|last3=Iuchi|first3=Kanako|title=Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development|date=2013|publisher=World Bank|location=Washington|isbn=9780821397459}}</ref> or inter-connected by high-capacity transit at a regional scale can they significantly reduce car-dependence and improve environmental conditions.
== See also ==
* [[Commuter town]]
* [[New Urbanism]]
* [[Smart growth]]
* [[Streetcar suburb]]
*{{Annotated link|Sustainable Development Goal 11}}
* [[Transit-oriented development]]
* [[Transit village]]
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