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Walkable Communities Expert Roundtable Report
Walkable Communities Expert Roundtable Report Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction to ASTHO .................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction to Walkable Communities ......................................................................................................... 4 Meeting Summary ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Expert Recommendations ............................................................................................................................... 6 Successes, Challenges, and Current Work ...................................................................................................... 8 Research Gaps and Needs for Promoting Policies and Practices ................................................................. 13 Overall Recommendations ............................................................................................................................ 15 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................ -
Urban Planning and Urban Design
5 Urban Planning and Urban Design Coordinating Lead Author Jeffrey Raven (New York) Lead Authors Brian Stone (Atlanta), Gerald Mills (Dublin), Joel Towers (New York), Lutz Katzschner (Kassel), Mattia Federico Leone (Naples), Pascaline Gaborit (Brussels), Matei Georgescu (Tempe), Maryam Hariri (New York) Contributing Authors James Lee (Shanghai/Boston), Jeffrey LeJava (White Plains), Ayyoob Sharifi (Tsukuba/Paveh), Cristina Visconti (Naples), Andrew Rudd (Nairobi/New York) This chapter should be cited as Raven, J., Stone, B., Mills, G., Towers, J., Katzschner, L., Leone, M., Gaborit, P., Georgescu, M., and Hariri, M. (2018). Urban planning and design. In Rosenzweig, C., W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, S. Dhakal, and S. Ali Ibrahim (eds.), Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network. Cambridge University Press. New York. 139–172 139 ARC3.2 Climate Change and Cities Embedding Climate Change in Urban Key Messages Planning and Urban Design Urban planning and urban design have a critical role to play Integrated climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in the global response to climate change. Actions that simul- should form a core element in urban planning and urban design, taneously reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and build taking into account local conditions. This is because decisions resilience to climate risks should be prioritized at all urban on urban form have long-term (>50 years) consequences and scales – metropolitan region, city, district/neighborhood, block, thus strongly affect a city’s capacity to reduce GHG emissions and building. This needs to be done in ways that are responsive and to respond to climate hazards over time. -
The Largest Annual Gathering of Planners in PA! WE SHARE YOUR GOALS for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PLAN on ERIE American Planning Association Pennsylvania Chapter CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT 2018 Annual Conference APA PA2018 this year! • 400 Planners expected! • 40 Classroom sessions • 6 Mobile workshops offered • Up to 12.25 CM credits, including Law and Ethics • Making a return, Fast – Fun – Fervent showcasing multiple presenters, multiple topics, seven minutes each • Welcome Reception at Erie Maritime Museum • “Intentionality: Competing in the 21st Century” Opening Keynote Session by Tom Murphy, Urban Land Institute • Annual Awards presentation – our best and brightest • S tate of the APA-PA Chapter • Monday reception with the Exhibitors • “The Neighborhood Play Book: Community Engagement” Plenary by Joe Nickol and Kevin Wright, Yard and Company • “Infrastructure Crisis: It’s Time to Rethink our Approach to Growth” Pitkin Lecture by Charles Marohn, PE, AICP, Strong Towns • Tuesday afternoon Desserts with our Exhibitors • NEW THIS YEAR! Erie Networking Lounge PA Chapter of the American Planning Association 2018 Annual Conference Sunday, October 14 – Tuesday, October 16 Erie, PA #APAPA18 The largest annual gathering of Planners in PA! WE SHARE YOUR GOALS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Paseo Verde in Philadelphia was funded in part by Low-Income Housing Tax Credits from PHFA Affordable home loans since 1982 www.PHFA.org 855-827-3466 Tom Wolf, Governor Brian A. Hudson Sr., Executive Director & CEO 2018 Annual Conference PA Chapter of APA |3 Get all the conference details at www.planningpa.org YOURGUIDE Conference At A Glance 5 Many Thanks -
On Guard- AGAINST DIABETES
On Guard AGAINST DIABETES Information on Diabetes for Persons With Disabilities ACTIVE LIVING ALLIANCE FOR CANADIANS WITH A DISABILITY www.ala.ca Acknowledgements Funding for this publication was provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not neces- sarily reflect the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability would like to thank the Canadian Diabetes Association for their contributions to this document. Through research, education, service, and advocacy, the Canadian Diabetes Association works to prevent type 2 diabetes and to improve the quality of life for those affected by type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes. For more information please visit http://www.diabetes.ca . The development of this publication was supported by: Dianne Bowtell: Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association, www.canadian- tr.org Lynn Chiarelli: Project Coordinator, Canadian Public Health Association Douglas G. Cripps, M.A: Chair - Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability, Instructor III/Fieldwork Coordinator, Co-Coordinator Bachelor of Health Studies Program Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies University of Regina Traci Walters: National Director, Independent Living Canada (formerly the Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres) On Guard AGAINST DIABETES Information on Diabetes for Persons With Disabilities Are You at Risk for Diabetes? If you are living with a disability, you know the many ways that having a disability affects your life. Something that you may not know is that living with a disability can put you at risk for developing other conditions, called secondary conditions. -
Sustainable Urban Design Paradigm: Twenty Five Simple Things to Do to Make an Urban Neighborhood Sustainable
© 2002 WIT Press, Ashurst Lodge, Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK. All rights reserved. Web: www.witpress.com Email [email protected] Paper from: The Sustainable City II, CA Brebbia, JF Martin-Duque & LC Wadhwa (Editors). ISBN 1-85312-917-8 Sustainable urban design paradigm: twenty five simple things to do to make an urban neighborhood sustainable B. A. Kazimee School of Architecture and Construction Management, Washington State University, USA. Abstract Sustainable design celebrates and creates the ability of communities and wider urban systems to minimize their impact on the environment, in an effort to create places that endure, Central to this paradigm is an ecological approach that take into consideration not only the nature but human element as well, locally and globally. The paper presents twenty five design strategies and explores processes that point to a rediscovery of the art and science of designing sustainable neighborhoods. It seeks to synthesize these principles into an agenda for the design of towns and cities with the intention of reversing many of the ills and destructive tendencies of past practices. These strategies serve as indicators to sustainable developmen~ they are used to define inherent qualities, carrying capacities and required ecological footprints to illustrate the place of exemplary communities. Furthermore, they are established to allow designers to model, measure and program sustainable standards as well as monitor the regenerative process of cities. The guidelines are organized under five primary variables for achieving sustainability: human ecology, energy conservation, land and resource conservation (food and fiber,) air and water quality. These variables are presented as highly interactive cycles and are based upon the theory and principles/processes of place making, affordability and sustainability. -
Meaningful Urban Design: Teleological/Catalytic/Relevant
Journal ofUrban Design,Vol. 7, No. 1, 35– 58, 2002 Meaningful Urban Design: Teleological/Catalytic/Relevant ASEEM INAM ABSTRACT Thepaper begins with a critique ofcontemporary urban design:the eldof urban designis vague because it isan ambiguousamalgam of several disciplines, includingarchitecture, landscapearchitecture, urban planningand civil engineering; it issuper cial because itisobsessedwith impressions and aesthetics ofphysical form; and it ispractised as an extensionof architecture, whichoften impliesan exaggerated emphasison theend product. The paper then proposesa meaningful(i.e. truly consequential to improvedquality of life) approach to urban design,which consists of: beingteleological (i.e. driven by purposes rather than de ned by conventional disci- plines);being catalytic (i.e. generating or contributing to long-term socio-economic developmentprocesses); andbeing relevant (i.e. grounded in rst causes andpertinent humanvalues). The argument isillustratedwith a number ofcase studiesof exemplary urban designers,such asMichael Pyatok and Henri Ciriani,and urban designprojects, such asHorton Plazaand Aranya Nagar, from around the world. The paper concludes withan outlineof future directionsin urban design,including criteria for successful urban designprojects (e.g. striking aesthetics, convenient function andlong-term impact) anda proposedpedagogical approach (e.g. interdisciplinary, in-depth and problem-driven). Provocations In the earlypart of 1998,two provocative urban design eventsoccurred at the Universityof Michigan in Ann Arbor.The rstwas an exhibition organizedas partof aninternationalsymposium on ‘ City,Space 1 Globalization’. The second wasa lecture by the renowned Dutch architectand urbanist, Rem Koolhaas. By themselves,the events generated much interestand discussion, yet were innocu- ous,compared to, say, Prince Charles’s controversialcomments on contempor- arycities in the UKorthe gathering momentumof the New Urbanism movementin the USA. -
Healthy Rural Community Design: a Scorecard for Comprehensive Plans
Healthy Rural Community Design: A Scorecard for Comprehensive Plans Version 3.1.1 Suggested citation: Charron, Lisa. Healthy Rural Community Design: A Scorecard for Comprehensive Plans – Version 3.1.1. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute; 2018. Funding to develop this tool was provided through a grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin- Madison. We value your feedback! Please visit https://www.wihealthatlas.org/comprehensive- plans/ to complete a short survey about your experience using the tool so that we can make future versions even better! The web page also has a link to sign up for email updates about new versions of the tool. Design modified from “Gertrude” template, slidescarnival.com. Photo credits, all via Flickr creative commons: Cover photo: Suzie’s Farm Facing photo: Daniel Feivoir Facing photo next page: David Clow 2 Table of contents Introduction Creating the Healthy Rural Community Design tool 4 About the tool 4 Helpful tips and resources 5 How do I know if my community is rural? 5 Scoring methodology 5 Plan evaluation process 7 For researchers 7 The Scorecard A. Overall plan, vision, and strategy 8 B. Healthy living 1) How we move around and access services 10 2) How we eat and drink 16 3) How we play and get our exercise 18 C. Active design 20 References 24 Appendix A: Scoresheet 26 3 Creating the Healthy Rural About the tool Community Design tool This scorecard is meant to help rural planners, puBlic health advocates, and community members The Healthy Rural Community Design Scorecard was recognize planning policies, strategies, and visions developed as part of the University of Wisconsin- within their local comprehensive plans that promote Madison's OBesity Prevention Initiative (OPI). -
On the Value(S) of an Architect
2 A Discipline Adrift? Teaching Architectural Ethics in Today’s World On the Value(s) of an Architect ANASTASIA H. CORTES Virginia Tech This paper situates architectural ethics in the context of observer: they either like it or they don’t. Architects earn practice by using stakeholder theory and the concept of pro- professional degrees and are licensed, like doctors, lawyers, fessional judgment to describe the activities of architectural and engineers. However, architecture is the lowest paid of practice. Architects are taught the skills necessary to make these four professions. Although buildings are tangible arti- ethical professional judgments in the contexts of design and facts of an architect’s work, the design of a building is less professional service, but they are not necessarily taught easily understood by the lay person than, say, recovery from how to effectively communicate the value of those skills to an illness. Often the public may value the architect’s work those outside the profession. Stakeholder theory provides a based on the subjective evaluation of the observer: they framework to describe the practice of architecture in a way either like it or they don’t. The profession cannot survive on that enables non-practitioners to appreciate value of the the basis of the public’s “like” of their work, as discussed in complex decisions and activities performed by architects. a 2015 article in Forbes magazine, which declared contem- porary architecture to be ugly, irrelevant, and out of touch “There’s a snobbery at work in architecture…The sub- with society.3 In support of this claim, the author offered up ject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped a description of the American Institute of Architects’ effort in mumbo-jumbo. -
Urban Design College of Architecture the Univer Sity of Oklahoma
REQUIRE MENTS FOR THE MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE THE UNIVER SITY OF OKLAHOMA For Students Entering the GENERAL REQUIRE MENTS Oklahoma State System Urban Design for Higher Education: Minimum Total Hours (Non-Thesis) . 32 M865 Summer 2018 through Minimum Total Hours (Thesis) . 32 Master of Urban Design Spring 2019 REQUIRED COURSES The master’s degree requires the equivalent of at least two semesters of Required Courses (32 hours): satisfactory graduate work and additional work as may be prescribed for the degree. Core Courses (9 hours): ARCH 6590 Research Methods 3 All coursework applied to the master’s degree must carry graduate credit. ARCH 6680 Urban Design Studio 3 ARCH 6680 Urban Design Studio 3 Master’s degree programs which require a thesis consist of at least 30 Professional Electives (9 hours from the following list of courses): 9 credit hours. All non-thesis master’s degree programs require at least 32 ARCH 5643 Urban Design Analytics credit hours. ARCH 5653 Urban Design Seminar ARCH 5713 Real Estate I Credit transferred from other institutions must meet specific criteria ARCH 5743 Legal Framework for Urban Design and is subject to certain limitations. ARCH 5763 Landscape Architecture for Architects ARCH 5990 Environmental Design Research Methods Courses completed through correspondence study may not be applied ARCH 6643 Urban Design Theory to the master’s degree. L A 5243 Land. Arch. Tech: Materials L A 5343 Land. Arch. Tech: Site Issues To qualify for a graduate degree, students must achieve an overall grade L A 5923 Planting Design point average of 3.0 or higher in the degree program coursework and in RCPL 5003 Global City & Planning Issues all resident graduate coursework attempted. -
Resource List: Community Design Charrettes & Participatory
Resource List: Community Design Charrettes & Participatory Techniques Web Resources American Institute of Architects: Communities by Design Website A community visioning clearinghouse that educates communities on the community design process. http://www.aia.org/liv_default Charrette 101 ASU Stardust Center PowerPoint presentation from December 5, 2008 ‘What is Community?’ workshop. http://stardust.asu.edu/research_resources/detail.php?id=55 Charrette Center.net Online compendium of free information for the community based urban design process. http://www.charrettecenter.net/charrettecenter.asp?a=spf&pfk=7 Making Sustainable Communities Happen Web Resources Resources to help discover ways to foster community sustainability by the ways you live, consume, travel, conserve, plan, and design. http://stardust.asu.edu/research_resources/research_files/31/66/Download_the_Web_Reources_Brochure.pdf National Charrette Institute The National Charrette Institute (NCI) is a nonprofit educational institution that helps people build community capacity for collaboration to create healthy community plans. http://www.charretteinstitute.org/ Publications Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning A resource to understand principles and methods of community design written from the design professional's perspective. Author: Henry Sanoff; Publisher. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000 Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities A step‐by‐step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies to create more green, clean, and equitable communities. Author: Patrick M. Condon. Publisher: Island Press, 2007 Livability 101 American Institute of Architect resource to help communities, architects, and public officials understand the basic elements of community design and take advantage of existing tools, strategies, and synergies at the policy, planning and design levels. Authors: Megan M. -
An Overview of the Building Delivery Process
An Overview of the Building Delivery CHAPTER Process 1 (How Buildings Come into Being) CHAPTER OUTLINE 1.1 PROJECT DELIVERY PHASES 1.11 CONSTRUCTION PHASE: CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION 1.2 PREDESIGN PHASE 1.12 POSTCONSTRUCTION PHASE: 1.3 DESIGN PHASE PROJECT CLOSEOUT 1.4 THREE SEQUENTIAL STAGES IN DESIGN PHASE 1.13 PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD: DESIGN- BID-BUILD METHOD 1.5 CSI MASTERFORMAT AND SPECIFICATIONS 1.14 PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD: 1.6 THE CONSTRUCTION TEAM DESIGN-NEGOTIATE-BUILD METHOD 1.7 PRECONSTRUCTION PHASE: THE BIDDING 1.15 PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD: CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS MANAGEMENT-RELATED METHODS 1.8 PRECONSTRUCTION PHASE: THE SURETY BONDS 1.16 PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD: DESIGN-BUILD METHOD 1.9 PRECONSTRUCTION PHASE: SELECTING THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND PROJECT 1.17 INTEGRATED PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD DELIVERY 1.18 FAST-TRACK PROJECT SCHEDULING 1.10 CONSTRUCTION PHASE: SUBMITTALS AND CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS DOCUMENTATION Building construction is a complex, significant, and rewarding process. It begins with an idea and culminates in a structure that may serve its occupants for several decades, even centuries. Like the manufacturing of products, building construction requires an ordered and planned assembly of materials. It is, however, far more complicated than product manufacturing. Buildings are assembled outdoors by a large number of diverse constructors and artisans on all types of sites and are subject to all kinds of weather conditions. Additionally, even a modest-sized building must satisfy many performance criteria and legal constraints, requires an immense variety of materials, and involves a large network of design and production firms. Building construction is further complicated by the fact that no two buildings are identical; each one must be custom built to serve a unique function and respond to its specific context and the preferences of its owner, user, and occupant. -
WOMEN SEEKING FACULTY POSITIONS in Urban and Regional
2015 FWIG CV Book WOMEN SEEKING FACULTY POSITIONS in Urban and Regional Planning Prepared by the Faculty Women’s Interest Group (FWIG) The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning October 2015 Dear Department Chairs, Heads, Directors, and Colleagues: The Faculty Women’s Interest Group (FWIG) of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) is proud to present you with the 2014 edition of a collection of abbreviated CVs of women seeking tenure-earning faculty positions in Urban and Regional Planning. Most of the women appearing in this booklet are new PhD’s or just entering the profession, although some are employed but looking for new positions. Most are seeking tenure-track jobs, although some may consider a one-year, visiting, or non-tenure earning position. These candidates were required to condense their considerable skills, talents, and experience into just two pages. We also forced the candidates to identify their two major areas of interest, expertise, and/or experience, using our categories. The candidates may well have preferred different categories. Please carefully read the brief resumes to see if the candidates meet your needs. We urge you to contact the candidates directly for additional information on what they have to offer your program. On behalf of FWIG we thank you for considering these newest members of our profession. If we can be of any help, please do not hesitate to call on either of us. Sincerely !Dr. J. Rosie Tighe Dr. K. Meghan Wieters Editor, 2014 Resume Book President, FWIG! [email protected]