Transit Oriented Development & Social Equity: from mixed use to mixed framework

This paper aims at evaluating Transit Oriented Development’s performance related tosocial equity. We are going through the topic starting by the definition of Transit orientedDevelopment, understanding its benefits (economic and environmental), its unintendedconsequences (related to social equity) and new strategies to avoid the latter ones.Finally we will compare two study cases, one in Rome (Italy) and one in Oakland, CA (USA) inorder to figure out whether or not unintended social consequences are likely to be expected. We willadopt an evaluation design scheme, discovering that the best way to guarantee social equity is byusing a “mixed framework” approach.