UpTown/Warehouse District Community Planning Links
We have prepared a list of links and references that you may find interesting as you prepare to participate in the UpTown/Warehouse District Community Planning and Design Charrette.
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Information about Community Design Charrettes
- http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_nacq.cfm?pagename=nacq_a_050428_spectopic_lennertz
- The Charrette Center
- New Tools for Community Design and Decision Making: An Overview
Arts and Entertainment
- Incorporating the Arts into Urban Development
- Houston Downtown Entertainment District
- Creative Organizations—Putting Art to Work in Community Development
- Essays for Art and Community Development
- Art in Urban Communities
Best Practices and Good Ideas
- EPA National Awards for Smart Growth Achievement. See descriptions of good urban revitalization projects.
- Mixed Use Development in the Twin Cities, Issues and Best Practices
- High Street Planning
- Town Design Plans
- Traditional Neighborhood Design—Links to projects
- Traditional Neighborhood Design Rating Standards
- http://www.urban-advantage.com/#. Cool website that illustrates how you can transform areas into great urban environments. Look at the Images and Projects.
- http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/index.asp. Another cool site that illustrates tranformations
- Great Streets. What are the elements of a great "main-street" like mixed-use area? Go to this website to find out.
- Preservation, Mixed-Use and Urban Vitality
General Links
Articles/Reports
- Mixed Use—Making Density Work
- The Incredible Shrinking Box—Retailers Shrink Stores to Fit Urban Settings
- Pedestrian Cities—Quality of Life Benefits of Density
- Creating Great Neighborhoods—Density in your neighborhood
- Parking Alternatives: Making way for urban infill and brownfield redevelopment
Interesting Books on Urban Design and Vitality
As recommended by the Congress for New Urbanism
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Jacobs, Jane
One of the most complete and incisive critiques of bad urbanism, with prescriptions for change. A half-century later, we're just starting to get it. Vintage Books, 1951. - The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
- Katz, Peter
A copiously illustrated compedium of recent townplanning projects by a range of designers. Includes essays by Todd Bressi, Peter Calthorpe, Andres Duany/Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Elizabeth Moule/Stefanos Polyzoides. McGraw-Hill, 1994. - Urban Space
- Krier, Rob
A cross-cultural and historical review of urban planning standards, as well as examples of modern errors in 20th century planning. Full of illustrations, this book combines theoretical argument with ample visuals demonstrating entrances, town plans, and various geometric rubrics for design. - Good City Form
- Lynch, Kevin
Encompasses varied responses to the question, "What makes a city 'good'?" Lynch focuses on the human projection of moral values onto cities, landscapes, and living spaces. Additionally, he discusses historical views of the 'good' city, theoretical categories for city types, and eventually defines his own model. - Planning to Stay
- Morrish, William
Aimed at community members, this book establishes lists of questions which help to define the desireable and undesireable attributes within any neighborhood. Also provides suggestions for methods of organization to bring about change at the local level. - Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999
- Suarez, Ray
Engages the concept of "white flight" and disinvestment in America's mid-western and north-eastern cities. Using a historical and sociological framework, Suarez devotes chapters to cities like Cleveland, St. Louis, and Brooklyn and their shifts in population and prosperity. - Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design
- Newman, Oscar
Explains how security is achieved through physical design. In Newman's plan, certain tendencies in physical proximity help to create community investment in crime prevention. Examples cited are mainly from high-density urban housing projects. - The American City: What Works, What Doesn't
- Garvin, Alexander
Garvin "surveys what has been done to improve America's cities over the past 100 years -- analyzing more than 250 programs..." Lavishly illustrated and long (475 pp.), this book covers every topical subset with real-life examples and a New Urbanist bent. - Charter of the New Urbanism
- Congress for the New Urbanism
Founded in 1993 the "Congress for the New Urbanism" (CNU) was formed to foster a new vision for restoring balance to cities and towns. With essays and case studies by a world-class roster of designers, developers, elected officials, and academics, this book is an essential introduction to New Urbanism, as well as a resource for seasoned professionals. Leccese, Michael, and Kathleen McCormick, eds; McGraw Hill, 2000. - Repairing the American Metropolis
- Douglas Kelbaugh
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis. University of Washington Press, 2002.
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